A poll showed American Jews strongly favor tax increases for the wealthy and tend to back labor in disputes with management.

The poll, released May 31 by the Workmen’s Circle, showed 65 percent of respondents favored raising taxes on those who earn more than $200,000 a year and 61 percent tend to side with the union when they hear of a strike against a large company.

A similar number, 62 percent, perceived a “major threat” from the “power of financial institutions and banks.”

The Workmen’s Circle, in commissioning the poll, sought to assess Jewish views on labor, taxes and jobs because such questions have been absent in recent years from a number of other high-profile polls of Jewish Americans.

The Jewish labor rights group, established in 1900, is seeking to re-assume a higher profile in the Jewish community.

The poll of 1,000 American Jews was conducted online. — jta