In contrast, recent trends do differ by education group. Until 2012, Americans with the most formal education (Bachelor+) were the most pro-business. By 2024, they became the most pro-union. On the other hand, Americans with the least formal education (less than high school) were historically among the most pro-union but recently became the least pro-union. High school graduates, some college, and bachelor-plus all expressed record-high pro-union sentiment in 2024. Even those without a high school degree remained near their record high.
oh yeah? well too fucking bad you dumbasses. should’ve voted better over the last 100 goddamn years if you loved labor unions so fucking much.
Yeah, fuck you, generation that just entered the working class. Your great grandparents should have made better decisions if you wanted unions.
And yet …
Source is apparently this article from EPI.org. I wish people would include links to sources instead of just images. I like to dig a little deeper into things to satisfy my own curiosity. There are other charts that break out this change in sentient by education, race, and political leaning. Big shock, conservatives are still a tad more pro-business than pro-union.
Oops. I first put in the article link, then decided to upload the image. I didn’t notice that that overrode the original link.
No worries. Did I get the right one? There were two possibilities from my search, but the other was sourced from this one.
Yes. I’ve already edited the OP.
The shift in trend for education is pretty interesting. It went from those with less than HS being the most supportive of unions in 1964 to the least supportive in 2024.
That is the evil brilliance of Conservative marketing.
Yeah, I suspect that is the Fox News effect. I think their propaganda works best on the the under-educated. Forty years of anti-union propaganda has manage to push blue-collar workers, who get the most help from unions, into anti-union territory. It never ceases to amaze me how people can be tricked into voting against their own interests.
Don’t get me wrong, the gap is huge, but this graph is designed to misrepresent the information.
The scale starts at 45% and tops out at 60%. Even the bottom of the scale is only JUST below half, and the top is only 10% above it. The midway point is not the 50% mark, which one would expect to be the case for a graph showing percentages. So that low point is not the low point the graph insinuates, and the gap is only 15%, not the like 95% differential the graph insinuated until you start looking more closely.
The message is ultimately factual, but misrepresenting data to misrepresent vibes is still misinformation.
yup yup. constantly see these graphs that dont bottom out at 0, very annoying.
Most of these add up to more than 100% as well. The headline indicates it’s one or the other, but the data seems to indicate overlapping approval, not favorites.
Are they prepared to back up that support with violence as necessary? If not, that “support” is ephemeral.
And yet union membership has declined almost every year since the 1980s
Median American Voter:
Who supports labor unions? 🙋♂️
Who wants to join one? 🙍♂️
They elected the most anti-union government ever. Great job.
Um I wonder what happened in 2008 that meant people turned against big businesses
