{"id":19727,"date":"2013-12-13T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19727"},"modified":"2013-12-13T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:22:35","slug":"californians-turning-on-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19727\/californians-turning-on-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Turning on Unions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly, Californians across nearly all age, political and demographic groups oppose organized labor, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 45 percent of respondents said labor unions do \u201cmore harm than good,\u201d while 40 percent said they do \u201cmore good than harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it doesn\u2019t matter whether it\u2019s private or public employee unions. People dislike both equally.<\/p>\n<p>Even Democrats are souring on one of their party\u2019s most powerful constituencies. The independent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/12\/13\/Poll--Californians-gradually-souring-on-unions\" target=\"_blank\">Field Poll<\/a> found that \u201c30 percent of registered Democrats now say unions do more harm than good, up from 21 percent in the 2011 survey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potential reasons include the ongoing pension and retirement benefits funding crises causing many municipalities to cut other services like public safety. An ongoing strike by public transit workers is stoking discontent in the Bay Area, heretofore a pro-union fortress.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably too early to tell how the slide in support for unions will impact California\u2019s politics. One thing is certain, though. By overplaying their hand, unions have earned the ire of a populace predisposed to support them. If disapproval of unions turns into a clear majority, the state that touched off a wave of property tax reform in the 1970\u2019s may become the impetus for weakening unions in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly, Californians across nearly all age, political and demographic groups oppose organized labor, according to a new poll. Overall, 45 percent of respondents said labor unions do \u201cmore harm than good,\u201d while 40 percent said they do \u201cmore good than harm.\u201d Interestingly, it doesn\u2019t matter whether it\u2019s private or public employee unions. People dislike both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,991,1051],"class_list":["post-19727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-poll","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19727"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19735,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727\/revisions\/19735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}