WSJ/NBC Poll: Strong Support for Bargaining Rights

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Great news. The recent poll shows very strong support for gov't workers to retain the rights to collective bargaining. BAD news for Scott Walker! (and remember this came from the very pro-business and now Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal)

By Patrick O'Connor

Americans strongly oppose efforts to strip unionized government workers of their rights to collectively bargain, even as they want public employees to contribute more money to their retirement and health-care benefits, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.

Eliminating collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers over health care, pensions or other benefits would be either “mostly unacceptable” or “totally unacceptable,” 62% of those surveyed said. Only 33% support such limits.

The results don’t bode well for Wisconsin’s newly elected Republican governor, Scott Walker, who is locked in a standoff with statehouse Democrats and unionized state workers over these rights.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/03/02/wsjnbc-poll-strong-support-for-bargaining-rights/?KEYWORDS=collective+bargaining+poll