Q. Overall, would workers be better off or worse off if unions in Australia were stronger?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
Work full time |
Work part time |
Sep 2012 |
May 2013 |
Feb 2014 |
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|
Total better off |
45% |
68% |
28% |
58% |
36% |
45% |
51% |
39% |
43% |
45% |
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|
Total worse off |
26% |
13% |
41% |
12% |
28% |
31% |
16% |
30% |
29% |
27% |
||
|
A lot better off |
17% |
30% |
6% |
31% |
9% |
16% |
18% |
13% |
14% |
21% |
||
|
A little better off |
28% |
38% |
22% |
27% |
27% |
29% |
33% |
26% |
29% |
24% |
||
|
A little worse off |
12% |
8% |
18% |
5% |
12% |
14% |
10% |
15% |
14% |
11% |
||
|
A lot worse off |
14% |
5% |
23% |
7% |
16% |
17% |
6% |
15% |
15% |
16% |
||
|
Make no difference |
15% |
8% |
19% |
13% |
19% |
12% |
15% |
15% |
12% |
13% |
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|
Don’t know |
15% |
11% |
11% |
17% |
18% |
11% |
17% |
15% |
14% |
15% |
The perception that workers would be better off with stronger unions has changed very little since this question was asked in February last year. 45% (no change) felt that workers would be better off if unions in Australia were stronger and 26% (down 1%) that believed workers would be worse off.
By voting intention, 68% of Labor voters and 58% of Greens voters believed that workers would be better off while Coalition voters were by far the most likely to believe that workers would be worse off (41%).