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  • Dec, 2013

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    Importance of unions

    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.

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