{"id":13357,"date":"2011-04-05T22:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:28:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-05T22:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:28:56","slug":"californians-support-our-public-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/05\/californians-support-our-public-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians: We Support Our Public Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we saw with strong turnouts at <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/13352\/we-are-one\">We are One rallies<\/a> across the state, that Californians don&#8217;t take kindly to the anti-worker tone emanating from some of the other statehouses. &nbsp;But now we have numbers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the aftermath of major demonstrations by labor unions on Monday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s death and to bring attention to working families, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) today released new polling results showing that 56% of California voters have a favorable view of public employees and 61% support their right to bargain together. With public sector workers under assault and major battles over union rights in Wisconsin, California voters also sided with the Wisconsin public employees (56%) over its governor (37%). (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulchinresearch.com\/2011\/04\/05\/statewide-poll-shows-strong-public-support-for-teachers-public-employees-their-right-to-bargain-collectively\/\">Tulchin Research\/CFT<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll asked 800 Californians a variety of questions on public workers, and they basically all turned up the same answer: Californians understand that public workers have a tough job, and that they should be supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we saw with strong turnouts at <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/13352\/we-are-one\">We are One rallies<\/a> across the state, that Californians don&#8217;t take kindly to the anti-worker tone emanating from some of the other statehouses. &nbsp;But now we have numbers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the aftermath of major demonstrations by labor unions on Monday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s death and to bring attention to working families, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) today released new polling results showing that 56% of California voters have a favorable view of public employees and 61% support their right to bargain together. With public sector workers under assault and major battles over union rights in Wisconsin, California voters also sided with the Wisconsin public employees (56%) over its governor (37%). (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulchinresearch.com\/2011\/04\/05\/statewide-poll-shows-strong-public-support-for-teachers-public-employees-their-right-to-bargain-collectively\/\">Tulchin Research\/CFT<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll asked 800 Californians a variety of questions on public workers, and they basically all turned up the same answer: Californians understand that public workers have a tough job, and that they should be supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9789,5071,722],"class_list":["post-13357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9789","tag-5071","tag-722"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}