Support for labor unions in the U.S. is at a 57-year high, according to a new Gallup poll.
Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions — up from last year’s 68%. Union support is also up from 64%, before the COVID-19 pandemic, and is the highest the polling firm has recorded since 1965.
Support for unions was highest in the 1950s, according to the Gallup, when 3 in 4 Americans approved of labor organizations.
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