Australian working people, importance of unions
Q. How important are unions for Australian working people today?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
Work full time |
Work part time |
|
19 Mar 12 |
10 Sep 12 |
20 May 13 |
10 Dec 13 |
|
| Total important |
61% |
79% |
44% |
87% |
60% |
60% |
72% |
56% |
52% |
56% |
57% |
||
| Total not Important |
30% |
17% |
50% |
8% |
27% |
34% |
21% |
35% |
38% |
36% |
34% |
||
| Very important |
27% |
42% |
11% |
48% |
25% |
26% |
31% |
19% |
16% |
21% |
22% |
||
| Quite important |
34% |
37% |
33% |
39% |
35% |
34% |
41% |
37% |
36% |
35% |
35% |
||
| Not very important |
21% |
14% |
33% |
8% |
18% |
24% |
14% |
27% |
28% |
24% |
22% |
||
| Not at all important |
9% |
3% |
17% |
– |
9% |
10% |
7% |
8% |
10% |
12% |
12% |
||
| Don’t know |
8% |
5% |
5% |
5% |
13% |
5% |
7% |
9% |
10% |
8% |
9% |
The majority of respondents regarded unions to be important for Australian working people today (61%), whilst 30% believe that they were not important. These results represent an increase in importance of unions since this question was asked in December – from net +23 to +31.
79% of Labor voters and 87% 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 (50%).
The majority of full time workers (60% – up 5%) and part time workers (72% – up 7%) regarded unions as important for Australian working people today.