A majority of Americans support higher pay for auto workers who are on strike against Detroit's Big Three carmakers, although approval of the workers' other demands is more mixed, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The poll found that 36% of Americans sympathize with the workers in their dispute with the automakers, 9% support the automakers, and the rest back both or neither.
In the new AP-NORC survey, 51% say labor unions help U.S. workers while only 15% say they hurt working people. About one-third say unions help the U.S. economy, while 22% say they damage the economy. “For far too long, labor has been the backbone of what we do in this country but has never been compensated,” she said. “In the last 50 years we have seen the decline of the working class and the rise of this sort of billionaire class and corporations taking and taking and not giving anything to the workers.”
The United Auto Workers went on strike Sept. 15 against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, which owns the Jeep, Dodge and Ram brands. The union is seeking large pay raises, a shorter work week, an end to lower-pay tiers for new workers and limits on the use of temporary workers. Americans are less certain about the UAW’s specific demands beyond pay raises. More than one-third think the union’s call for a four-day work week would be a good thing, while 21% think it's a bad idea. The public is also somewhat more likely to say it would be a good thing than a bad thing to place limits on the car companies’ use of temporary workers and to require electric vehicles and parts to be made by union workers, but many are unsure or express no opinion either way.
The poll shows only 25% of Americans approve of Biden's handling of the auto dispute, while 34% disapprove. Trump's ratings on the issue are even worse, with 19% approving and 39% disapproving of his response to the strike. Thirty-five percent trust Democrats more than Republicans when it comes to handling issues facing American workers, while 24% trust the GOP more.
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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, AP-NORC poll showsAs the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than with the three big car companies that employ them
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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, AP-NORC poll showsAs the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than with the three big car companies that employ them.
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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, AP-NORC poll showsAs the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than with the three big car companies that employ them. That's one of the findings in a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, AP-NORC poll showsAs the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than with the three big car companies that employ them
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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, AP-NORC poll showsAs the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than with the three big car companies that employ them.
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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, AP-NORC poll showsAs the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than with the three big car companies that employ them.
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