Poll: Majority in U.S. approve of labor unions

• Poll: Majority in U.S. approve of labor unions

  PRINCETON, N.Y., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A majority of U.S. adults approve of labor unions, with support growing in the past year but still well below...
  

  Poll: Majority in U.S. approve of labor unions

  PRINCETON, N.Y., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A majority of U.S. adults approve of labor unions, with support growing in the past year but still well below the historical average, a Gallup survey found.
  
  The survey of 2,059 people age 18 and over, released Friday, indicated 54 percent approved of organized labor -- 2 percentage points above the 2012 figure but 8 points below the historic average, and 6 points above the all-time low of 48 percent in 2009, Gallup said. Thirty-nine percent said they did not approve of unions.
  
  The all-time high approval was 75 percent in 1953 and 1957. Approval remained above 60 percent until the end of the 1960s, Gallup said.
  
  The survey reveals "a classic partisan" split, Gallup said, with 34 percent of respondents identifying themselves as Republicans indicating approval of unions in contrast with 75 percent of those identifying themselves as Democrats. The South had the lowest opinion of unions, with 47 percent approving.
  
  A majority of respondents -- 52 percent -- said believe unions would become weaker in the future.
  
  "Given that fewer than one in five households [19 percent] have a labor union member, it is perhaps not surprising," that unions are perceived as becoming weaker, Gallup said.
  
  The poll -- which has been taken every year since 1936 -- was conducted Aug. 7-13. The margin of error was 3 percentage points.
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  Poll: Majority in U.S. approve of labor unions

  When Reagan began Union Bashing in the 1980s when he was President along with Globalization taking hold in the 1990s, the real income of the Average U.S. family dropped 7.2% from 2000 to the present with 3 to 4% of the drop since 2008. So, the loss of unions in the U.S. is the primary reason for that 7.2% drop in real income of American Families since 2000.

  So, it could be said Union Bashing and globalization together have robbed the American people of 7.2% of their real income since 2000.

  Also, the recovery in the United States is 2/3 in the stock market. So, unless people had money in the stock market most families haven't really seen the recovery yet since 2008. 

  note: real income refers to what your money that you make actually can buy. So, it is a relationship between what you make and what you actually can afford to buy or do buy.