Public Relations and Polling the Question, "Does America Need Labor Unions?"

Given the attention the Employee Free Choice Act ("Check Card") is generating, Parade Magazine is asking "Does America Still Need Labor Unions?" Take the poll and view the results.

When I visited: 84% Yes vs. 16% No.

Disclosure: I was notified of this poll in an AFL-CIO blast email asking me to visit the site and vote "yes."

They added:

The anti-union lobby and public relations machine will be mobilizing others to visit the site and vote No. Don't let them distort the view of the American people.

Allegiances aside, anyone else see the irony here? Makes one wonder what the polls like this one are really measuring. Are we learning the average persons' views or seeing the mobilization abilities of each side. This appears to be the public relations game needing to be played as some media source or article will likely quote the results as definitive on something.

Regardless, looks like labor is compiling some wins these days, not only with cases and legislation, but in PR efforts, too.