Southeastern Minnesota labor leader Russell Hess tweeted a link to Employee Free Choice Poll Gives Labor Backers Big Boost at Huffington Post. Sam Stein reports:
Proponents of the Employee Free Choice Act received a big boost Tuesday morning with the publication of an independent poll showing majority support both for the legislation and the greater concept of increased unionization.
Gallup Surveys released a study on Tuesday finding that 53 percent of respondents favored a new law that would "make it easier for labor unions to organize workers." Only 39 percent of respondents opposed such a law.
When asked how important it was that Congress pass such a law, 26 percent of respondents said "very," 29 percent said "somewhat," 23 percent said "not too important," and 20 percent said "not important at all."
Meanwhile, an anti-EFCA letter in the Mankato Free Press repeats a debunked claim about the legislation. Media Matters has collected and dispatched a number of similar instances on its "American Workforce and Labor" page.
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