New 2010 Survey Union Member Attitudes

From the National Right to Work Foundation’s press release (11/1/2010):

A nationwide poll of private and government sector union members demonstrates the stunning disconnects between union members and the union bosses who claim to represent them. The National Right to Work Foundation commissioned pollster Frank Luntz to conduct this scientific survey.

Eighty percent (80%) of union members support the Right to Work principle that union membership and dues payment should be voluntary and not required as a condition of employment. Nearly ninety percent (90%) of union employees surveyed favored more union hierarchy disclosure and accountability.

Sixty percent (60%) of union members oppose their union bosses’ political spending on the 2010 midterm elections, and they view it as a wasteful use of their union dues to pour money into campaigns to protect incumbent Democrat politicians in Washington, D.C.

Nearly sixty percent (60%) of union members would rather have money spent working with employers to create new and better jobs than on Big Labor’s 2010 political spending spree – led by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union bosses’ $87.5 million “incumbent protection program.”  In fact, a majority of union members believe that union boss political spending should be used to “throw the bums out.”  Fifty percent (50%) support replacing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with someone else and only thirty percent (30%) want her to remain Speaker.

If allowed a secret ballot election, fifty-nine percent (59%) of union membership would actually vote to replace their own “union leadership.”

“As top union officials are pouring an estimated one billion dollars into re-electing Democrats into Congress, a large majority of union members actually oppose the union bosses’ political agenda” said Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation. “That’s why it comes to no surprise that union members would like to replace their own union leadership, and overwhelmingly support the Right to Work principle for all of America’s workers.”

For more, read the 2010 National Right to Work Foundation – Frank Luntz Union Member Attitude Survey.