Current or former union membership has a mild connection to a reader's political views, an online poll this week showed.
(Thanks to all of you who responded to our poll on whether it's time for Ontario to have a new provincial flag. The poll came out at 87 per cent no, which to my mind makes it too one-sided to be interesting to write about.)
Just under two-thirds of you said that you were, or had been, a member of a union:
More men said yes than women, which more or less reflects the national data:
Rates are pretty consistent across age groups, other than for under-40s. It's possible that this has to do with having less employment history to look back on, falling rates of private-sector union membership or some combination of both:
Those with a high school education or less had lower rates:
People with some level of union connection are more likely to vote NDP or Green than Liberal or PC, but not by a very dramatic margin.
They are more likely to oppose a forced return to the office ...
... more likely to favour a single public school system, and a republic ...
... favour extending drug legalization (though not by a large margin) ...
... and agree with the statement "Home ownership in Canada is becoming something only the rich can afford."
However, a union connection has no coherent relationship to views of Justin Trudeau or Pierre Poilievre:
