rasmussenreports.com - 3/17/2009
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Sixty-one percent (61%) of Americans say it is fair to require a vote by secret ballot if workers want to form a union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 18% say it is not fair to require a secret ballot. At the same time, most Americans (57%) believe it is ...
rasmussenreports.com - 3/16/2009
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rasmussenreports.com —
Union members tend to believe that most workers
want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen...
Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree. But those who don’t belong to a union hold a ...
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Just 9% of Non-Union Workers Want to Join Union
online.wsj.com - 3/20/2009
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online.wsj.com —
In a largely party-line vote last week, Democrats
in the House passed the Employee Free Choice Act,...
a measure that rewrites the rules for union organizing by eliminating secret-ballot elections. The Senate is up next. And if you suspect this has ...
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'Secret Ballot Is Absolutely Necessary'
mediamatters.org - 3/11/2009
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mediamatters.org —
In a February 25 Politico article , Lisa
Lerer reported that the Employee Free Choice Act "would...
allow workers to organize a union by signing a card instead of holding secret-ballot elections." However, Lerer's suggestion that a secret-ballot ...
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Politico falsely suggested that a secret-ballot ...
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Take Me to Your Union Leader
Weekly Standard Blog —
... (only 7.8 percent of private-sector workers are unionized), they are unfamiliar with the economic and political downsides to organized labor. It's therefore unsurprising that 53 percent of respondents would tell Gallup that they favor a law that "would make it easier for labor unions to organize workers."
Ask respondents whether or not they want to join a union, however, and the answer is different. Just 9 percent of non-union workers say they want to join, and 61 percent say the secret ballot is a fair method of union organizing. ...
EFCA Polls: Yet Again, It All Comes Down To The Question
TPM Election Central —
... Next up is the new Rasmussen poll, showing some serious antipathy to EFCA. Let's look at how they phrased not just one question -- but three of them. ...
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