"It's no accident that 71% of Americans have a favorable view of unions - the highest since 1965, while just 36% hold a favorable view of corporations - the lowest since Wall Street crashed the economy in 2008. The American people are sick and tired of corporate greed." - Bernie Sanders
(CNN)Between strikes by nurses, teachers and maybe railroad workers, and new union efforts gaining steam at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and elsewhere, big labor is having a big moment.
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The American public is back in love with
labor unions, so why aren’t workers?
KEY POINTS:
- 1. Many top U.S. brands from Apple to Chipotle,
- Starbucks and Amazon are facing an increased
- effort among front-line and retail employees to unionize.
- 2. The American public has the workers’ backs, with a
- new Gallup poll finding that support for unions has
- reached its highest level since 1965.
- 3. But the Gallup data also shows how difficult it will be to
- turn general support into widespread organizing activity,
- as the majority of nonunion workers tell Gallup they
- have little interest in joining the labor movement.