[lbo-talk] ciao, unions

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 25 07:06:27 PST 2010


On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:10 PM, Mark Rickling wrote:


> So all those Republicans and Independents have turned against unions
> because they didn't support single payer or support adding $100s of
> billions to the deficit in a real jobs bill?

Swing in favorability, January 2007-February 2010:

white -17 black -16

college grad -18 some college -19 HS or less -14

$75,000+ -19 $30-74,999 -10 under $30,000 -22 (to 43%, a level lower than the $30-74,999 group!)

Republican -18 Democrat -14 Independent -16

union HH - 3 non-union HH -18

So it's a long way from just Reps and Inds. Check out the details, it's not pretty:

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1505/labor-unions-support-falls-public-now-evenly-split-on-purpose-power

Doug



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