The vast majority of Americans support the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions (60%-33%) and oppose (56% - 37%) cuts to the pay and/or benefits of public employees, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.Clearly, Wisconsin's Governor Walker and his followers are greatly out of touch with the majority of Americans:
Governors in both parties have been making the case that public workers are either overpaid or have overly generous health and pension benefits. But 61 percent of those polled — including just over half of Republicans — said they thought the salaries and benefits of most public employees were either “about right” or “too low” for the work they do.
"Collective bargaining -- what my dad called sitting "at the table" -- is a cornerstone of our democracy and our middle class." -- Sec. Hilda Solis
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