Americans favor labor unions more today than at any other time since 1965, a new survey from Gallup reports, although just one in six households in the United States include at least one family member.
The level of support for unions, coming in at 71%, matches the approval during the heyday of modern manufacturing in the United States, when more than a quarter of the entire American workforce was a member of a union.
With unemployment at 50-year lows and more than 12 million job openings, the nation’s workforce has been organizing into unions at employers such as Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and Google as workers leverage their collective strength for increased wages and better conditions.