UNION APPROVAL AT 71% ACCORDING TO GALLUP SURVEY

Unions are very popular with the public in 2022.

This is from Gallup:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions. Although statistically similar to last year's 68%, it is up from 64% before the pandemic and is the highest Gallup has recorded on this measure since 1965.

New York City is a union town.

This was in The City:

New York City workers are joining labor unions at a rate far higher than their counterparts in other cities — and at 10 times the national average.

The annual State of the Unions report from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies finds nearly half of the 17,000 workers who’ve joined a labor union in the five boroughs since the start of 2021 are employed by Amazon, where workers at a massive Staten Island fulfillment center became the first in the nation to unionize.

New York City private-sector workers are joining unions at nearly twice the rate as in the next most active city, Seattle, and at five times the rate as in San Francisco or Los Angeles, the study finds.

If unions are on offense in NYC, why are the UFT and many other Municipal Labor Committee unions still playing defense?