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CBS claims the results show that American are opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act by a 45 to 38 percent margin, but the question uses loaded language leaving the outcome almost certain to be negative.
The poll asked respondents:
Currently, employers can demand employees vote by secret ballot if they wish to form a labor union. Legislation has been proposed that would make it easier to form labor unions by allowing employees to publicly sign a card saying they want to form a union without having to vote by secret ballot. Do you favor or oppose making it easier for people to form labor unions by allowing them to publicly sign a card, even if that might eliminate a secret ballot vote?
Yesterday a Gallup poll showed overwhelming support for the Employee Free Choice Act by a 53 to 39 percent margin. Gallup asked the question this way:
Generally speaking, would you favor or oppose a new law making it easier for labor unions to organize workers?
The Gallup question is straight and to the point about the right to organize without the nuance and spin of the CBS question. Groups opposed to the right to organize have released push-polls in the past, but those groups make no claim to fairness and in fact keep their funding and membership in the shadows. So the question remains, why did CBS allow this question into the poll and what is their agenda? ...
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