Q. How important are unions for Australian working people today?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ indep-endent |
|
19 Mar 12 |
10 Sep 12 |
20 May 13 |
|
| Total important |
57% |
78% |
37% |
82% |
51% |
56% |
52% |
56% |
||
| Total not Important |
34% |
14% |
56% |
11% |
38% |
35% |
38% |
36% |
||
| Very important |
22% |
38% |
6% |
43% |
20% |
19% |
16% |
21% |
||
| Quite important |
35% |
40% |
31% |
39% |
31% |
37% |
36% |
35% |
||
| Not very important |
22% |
12% |
33% |
9% |
25% |
27% |
28% |
24% |
||
| Not at all important |
12% |
2% |
23% |
2% |
13% |
8% |
10% |
12% |
||
| Don’t know |
9% |
8% |
7% |
8% |
11% |
9% |
10% |
8% |
The majority of respondents regarded unions to be important for Australian working people today (57%), whilst 34% believe that they were not important. These results have changed little since this question was asked in May.
78% of Labor voters and 82% of Greens voters believed that unions were important for Australian working people today, while Coalition voters were the most likely to regard unions as not important (56%).
The majority of full time workers (55%) and part time workers (65%) regarded unions as important for Australian working people today.