Exclusive: Biden’s Medicare call center unionization plan is panned by voters: poll
Joe Biden administration’s “all-out push” to force Medicare call center contractors to unionize is opposed by a majority of voters, with 51 percent disapproving compared to 32 percent supporting, and 16 percent having no opinion, according to a poll conducted by the Tyson Group on behalf of Public Labor Unions Accountability Committee (PLUAC).
A 36 percent plurality strongly opposed the requirements, as did a majority of participants over the age of 65, many of whom are on Medicare.
The Tyson Group also found that public sector unions — that stand to benefit from this unionization push — are unpopular with the general electorate. A 44 percent plurality of 650 likely general election voters agreed that “unions negatively impact public education by prioritizing social issues over preparing students for their future” and a 51 percent majority agreed that “we need to protect taxpayers, teachers, and seniors from the public sector unions trying to slow down Medicaid and Medicare services for the vulnerable.”
Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.) told the Reporter the “findings [in PLUAC’s poll] underscore what many Americans already know: public sector unions can often negatively impact the efficiency and integrity of government programs.”
Walberg, one of the top Republicans on the House’s Education and Workforce Committee, added that “Medicare and Medicaid recipients should not be faced with additional potential burdens and wait times due to the Biden administration’s eagerness to increase public sector unions.”
Read the full poll HERE.
