{"id":19272,"date":"2012-08-30T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/majority-of-public-agrees-labor-unions-needed\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:44:52","slug":"majority-of-public-agrees-labor-unions-needed","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2012\/08\/30\/majority-of-public-agrees-labor-unions-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Public Agrees Labor Unions Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly two thirds (64%) of Americans agree that labor unions are necessary to protect the working person, while 33% disagree, according to the 2012 political values survey. Positive views of labor unions have stabilized, after declining by 13 points from 2003 to 2009.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans have grown increasingly skeptical of the need for labor unions. In 2003, 62% of Republicans said labor unions were necessary to protect workers \u2013 that fell to 53% in 2007 and 44% in 2009. Currently, 43% of Republicans agree that labor unions are necessary, while 54% disagree.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The belief that labor unions are needed also fell among independents from 2003 to 2009, from 76% to 58%. Today, 61% of independents say unions are needed to protect the working person. Democrats remain strong supporters of labor unions: eight-in-ten agree that they are necessary, little changed from recent years.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been less change over time in opinions about whether labor unions are too powerful. Currently, 57% agree that \u201clabor unions have too much power.\u201d That is little changed from 2009 (61%), or from the first political values survey in 1987 (59%). <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2012\/06\/04\/section-5-values-about-business-wall-street-and-labor\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two-thirds of Americans agree that labor unions are necessary to protect working 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