{"id":8241,"date":"2011-01-10T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:25:23","slug":"public-employee-unions-favorability-sinks-below-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8241\/public-employee-unions-favorability-sinks-below-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Employee Unions&#8217; Favorability Sinks Below 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rasmussen Reports<\/em> is out today with some interesting survey results.\u00a0 In the wake of severe budget deficits Americans&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/jobs_employment\/january_2011\/support_for_public_employee_unions_declines\" target=\"_blank\">support for public employee unions is sinking to new lows<\/a>.\u00a0 According to <em>Rasmussen<\/em>\u2019s telephone survey, 45% of respondents oppose allowing public employees to unionize, while an equal number favor the practice.\u00a0 Just last May, 53% of Americans favored unions for public employees.<\/p>\n<p>The 8% drop in approval rating combined with the rise in outright hostility undoubtedly concerns the mandarins over at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the nation\u2019s largest public employee and health care workers union.\u00a0 This kind of growing opposition will surely earn more hysterical charges from AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee\u2019s like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afscme.org\/press\/33924.cfm \" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> that <em>60 Minutes<\/em> engaged in media bias when it granted air time to reform Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to get serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmussen Reports is out today with some interesting survey results.\u00a0 In the wake of severe budget deficits Americans&#8217; support for public employee unions is sinking to new lows.\u00a0 According to Rasmussen\u2019s telephone survey, 45% of respondents oppose allowing public employees to unionize, while an equal number favor the practice.\u00a0 Just last May, 53% of Americans [&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":[630,1982,1034,2245,410,761],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-60-minutes","tag-afscme","tag-chris-christie","tag-gerald-w-entee","tag-new-jersey","tag-public-employee-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","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=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}