Americans' Support for Labor Unions Continues to Recover
Source: AP
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Americans' approval of labor unions has jumped five percentage points to 58% over the past year, and is now at its highest point since 2008, when 59% approved. In the interim, the image of organized labor had suffered, sinking to an all-time low of 48% in 2009.
Gallup first asked Americans about organized labor in 1936, a year after Congress legalized private-sector unions and collective bargaining. At that time, 72% of Americans approved of unions. Support remained high into the 1960s, but then dipped through the 1970s until it reached 55% in 1979. It has since varied, reaching as high as 66% in 1999 and as low as the 48% in 2009.
The latest results are from the 2015 installment of Gallup's annual Work and Education survey, conducted Aug. 5-9.
Consistent with the recent increase in approval of unions, the percentage of Americans saying they would like labor unions to have more influence in the country has also been rising, and now stands at 37%, up from 25% in 2009. Meanwhile, the percentage wanting unions to have less influence has declined from 42% to 35%, although it remains higher than it was from 1999 through 2008. Instead, fewer today say they want unions' influence to stay the same.
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That the 1st and 2nd amendments are still intact, after all the years of scare tactics. When has a Democrat ever had on their platform, confiscating guns, and banning religion (the "war of Christmas" notwithstanding 
).
Just the dumbest form of human.
A) He knows the Dems will immediately come for his guns the minute they gain control of the White House and Congress. You know, like they've done every other time they held majority status. 
B) His church and Rush O'Reilihannity all tell him to.
C) Only repukes will protect him from every imaginable bogeyman. Especially the ISIS Naval and Air Forces, who are this very minute camped just south of the US/Mexico border.
D) Only repukes will protect us from from all the catastrophes and disasters attendant to same sex marriage, that will befall us all.
E) Bill Clinton got a BJ in the Oval Office.
F) Benghazi.
There is no possibility of reasonable discussion with this cretin. Everyone that's tried, myself included, deeply regretted wasting the time trying.
