On this Labor Day, unions have high approval ratings.

For Marketplace, I'm Novosafo and for David Brancaccio.

A Gallup poll shows 67% of Americans support labor unions.

That support has been increasing for more than a decade after hitting an all-time low

in 2009, following the Great Recession.

The poll also asked about striking workers and found overwhelming support as well when

it comes to the Hollywood strike and a potential one by United Auto Workers.

Lane Wyndham, a labor historian at Georgetown University, says that's unprecedented.

That is a big difference from what we've seen in the past in the 1970s, 1980s.

The public was not as supportive of workers going out on strike and taking a stand.

And so I think that votes very well for workers being able to effectively form unions and

exercise their union power.

Today marks the 126th day of the Ryder Strike, 53rd day for actors.

The Auto Workers Labor contract with Detroit's Big Three expires next week Thursday.

And full disclosure, union employees here at Marketplace are members of SAG after all,

though they're represented under a different contract than SAG members currently on strike.

Markets in the U.S. are closed for Labor Day, they reopen tomorrow.

The video game industry is expected to generate global revenues of $227 billion this year.

That's an estimate from the accounting and advisory firm PWC.

Those revenues are more than what's generated from movies and music combined.

We've been looking at what economic lessons we can learn from the video game industry

and the games themselves.

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