While Americans' opinion of unions has steadily slipped in the past decade, most people seem to oppose stripping unions of bargaining powers – 61 percent of US voters, according to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll.
And while only 47 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of unions, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll, that still outstrips the 39 percent who have an unfavorable opinion. Another Pew poll specifically about Wisconsin, meanwhile, found that 42 percent sided more with the union employees than with the governor (31 percent).
