Skip to content
menu
search
All You Fascists Bound to Lose
Labor

Why Do 48 Percent of Americans Disapprove of Unions?

Jeremy Gantz

Mike Elk, a regular Working In These Times contributor, offered his answer to that question this week on the RT network’s Alyona Show during a feisty exchange with Christopher Prandoni, the executive director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom. The Alliance, a project of Americans for Tax Reform (which was founded by Grover Norquist), is not exactly friendly to unions. Elk and Prandoni sparred over public workers unions’ (lack of) connection to the revenue crises wreaking havoc on state finances around the country. 

Free for any DSA or Union member

Get 10 print issues of our award-winning, worker-first journalism here!

DSA members claim here

Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.

Have thoughts or reactions to this or any other piece that you'd like to share? Send us a note with the Letter to the Editor form.
More articles by Jeremy Gantz
LaborFeature
Two Years In, These “Progressive” Companies Still Haven’t Negotiated First Union Contracts
The union wave at big U.S. retailers hasn’t yet resulted in first contracts for workers at Trader Joe’s, Starbucks and REI. But unions are proving their value in other ways.
Jeremy Gantz
Labor
Starbucks. Amazon. Now, Trader Joe’s Is Unionizing.
Workers are pushing for the grocery store chain’s first union.
Jeremy Gantz
Labor
The Largest Private-Sector Strike of the Year Is Headed for Union Victory
After nearly seven weeks on the picket line, Machinists union members will soon vote on a contract that includes everything they’re fighting for.
Jeremy Gantz
Similar articles
LaborDispatch
How the Teamsters Tested Amazon
A look back at the organizing power of the holiday-season Amazon strikes.
Luis Feliz Leon
LaborInterview
The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
A discussion with Craig Gent and James Muldoon about the colonial history of tech infrastructure, its human and environmental costs, and how workers around the world are fighting back.
Sarah Jaffe
LaborInterviewPodcast
Liz Oliva Fernández on Life in Cuba Under U.S. Embargo
“I didn't know how the sanctions affected me or my friends.”
Maximillian Alvarez
Get 10 issues for $19.95

Subscribe to the print magazine.

Subscribe Now