Which side does the public support?
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...a majority of Americans say they oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions and are also against cutting the pay or benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Americans oppose weakening the bargaining rights of public employee unions by a margin of nearly two to one: 60 percent to 33 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us...ml?_r=1&emc=na
By a modest margin, more say they back Wisconsin’s public employee unions rather than the state’s governor in their continuing dispute over collective bargaining rights. Roughly four-in-ten (42%) say they side more with the public employee unions, while 31% say they side more with the governor..
http://people-press.org/report/709/
Americans reject Republican efforts to curb bargaining rights of unions whose power they say is dwarfed by corporations, a Bloomberg National Poll finds.
As battles rage between state workers and Republican governors in Wisconsin and Ohio, 63 percent don’t think states should be able to break their promises to retirees
Sixty-four percent of respondents, including a plurality of Republicans, say public employees should have the right to bargain collectively for their wages.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...-benefits.html
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These attacks against public employees union do not have public support and they, in fact, have galvanized workers, both union and non-union.