{"id":125570,"date":"2022-09-12T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/09\/12\/public-support-for-unions-highest-in-50-years\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T22:13:00","slug":"public-support-for-unions-highest-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/public-support-for-unions-highest-in-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Support for Unions Highest in 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Julia Conley writes: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\">\u201cAmid a continued high-profile push for workers&#8217; rights at U.S. companies including Starbucks and Amazon, polling released Tuesday showed that Americans&#8217; approval of labor unions is the highest it&#8217;s been in nearly six decades and has risen substantially since a low point in the 2010s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Gallup&#8217;s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/398303\/approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Work and Education Survey<\/a>, conducted between August 1-23, found that 71% of Americans now approve of labor unions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Support for workers&#8217; rights has steadily risen in recent years as the public has watched a fired Amazon employee lead his former colleagues to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/david-beats-goliath-workers-new-york-vote-form-amazons-first-ever-union-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historic union victory<\/a> in April and Starbucks baristas at <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectunion.us\/map-where-are-starbucks-workers-unionizing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 200 stores<\/a> vote to unionize despite facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2022\/08\/25\/enough-enough-declares-sanders-after-nlrb-says-starbucks-targeted-union-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aggressive\u2014and illegal\u2014retaliation<\/a> by the coffee chain\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/us-workers-fight-labor-rights-public-support-unions-soars-five-decade-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Read more: As US Workers Fight for Labor Rights, Public Support for Unions Soars to Five-Decade High<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Conley writes: \u201cAmid a continued high-profile push for workers&#8217; rights at U.S. companies including Starbucks and Amazon, polling released Tuesday showed that Americans&#8217; approval of labor unions is the highest it&#8217;s been in nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":125571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[1150],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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