60% of Americans Approve of Labor UnionsAccording to the latest Gallup poll conducted Aug. 13-16, sixty percent of Americans approve of labor unions. Union members earn 30 percent more than nonunion workers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Likewise, 80 percent of union members are covered by pension plans versus just 47 percent of nonunion workers. Nonunion workers are also five times more likely to lack health insurance coverage. 60 million U.S. workers say they would join a union if they could. But employer intimidation and weakly enforced labor laws prevent American workers from organizing. Anti-worker lawmakers recently derailed Senate passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, an initiative that would allow workers to join unions – either by ballot elections or majority sign-up – without employer interference.
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