{"id":38852,"date":"2016-09-06T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=38852"},"modified":"2016-09-06T12:38:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:38:41","slug":"increasing-number-americans-see-positive-role-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/increasing-number-americans-see-positive-role-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Number of Americans See Positive Role of Unions","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Gallup poll shows 52% of Americans believe labor unions benefit the broader U.S. economy, while only 41% believe unions hurt the economy. Although that is still below the historical norm, this it is the most positive Americans have been about unions in a decade and reflects a turning away from the onslaught of anti-union news and propaganda elicited by heavily financed billionaire backed groups seen in recent years.<br \/>\nThis represents a 7-point rise since 2011 and it is the most positive Americans have been about the economic effects of unions since before the Bush Administration&#8217;s\u00a0Great Recession of 2007.<br \/>\nIn addition, seventy percent of respondents reported back that think unions help members of the union and 55 percent believe they are a positive contributor to companies where workers are unionized.<br \/>\nWhile Union membership has been on the decline for decades, a recent study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) linked wage stagnation during that period to that decline:<br \/>\nAccording to the Economic Policy Institute study, union membership among men in the private sector dropped from 34 percent in 1979 to just 10 percent in 2013. 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