As working men and women across America celebrated Labor Day yesterday with 8.3 million of their brothers and sisters unemployed, there was one thing that conservatives and liberals, business and labor all agreed on---workers are fed up. The management oriented Employment Law Alliance found that in a survey of 1,000 Americans last month, fifty-eight percent were in favor of union organizing campaigns, seventy-three percent wanted laws requiring employee representation on corporate boards, and eighty-four percent wanted more corporate accountability. In a similar poll of 800 American workers also conducted last month, the AFL-CIO found that half would join a union tomorrow if given the opportunity---up eight percent from last year---and fifty-eight percent had negative feelings towards CEO?s.
See KIRSTIN DOWNEY GRIMSLEY, The Washington Post, September 2, 2002