In what is encouraging news for the
Protect Our Jobs campaign, a
Bloomberg News national poll shows
64 percent of Americans believe that public sector workers should have
the right to collectively bargain. That number includes 55 percent of
Republicans. In that same poll, 63 percent believe that states should
not be able to break pension agreements they've made. The poll of 1,001
adults was conducted March 4-7.
The
poll comes after a number of Republican governors used budget problems
to justify removing collective bargaining rights. Most poll respondents
believed that those budget deficits were a result of years of tax
cuts--not the actions of public employees.
As
a result of that opinion, Bloomberg’s poll shows that 72 percent have a
favorable view of public employees and see corporations wielding more
political power than unions.
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