GOP-Governed and Right-To-Work States Saved the Economy’s Bacon in 2011
” along with most of the states where getting a job doesn’t require you to pay union dues,”
The truth is good enough; you damage your credibility when you either accidentally or deliberately misstate things. There are only a few situations in the construction industry or in publicly funded work under what’s called a “project labor agreement” in which you must be a union member to get a job.
In about half the states currently you can be compelled to pay union dues or representation fees as a condition of keeping a job after the 30th day of employment. These are called union or agency shops, though the compelled union shop is technically illegal. Under Hudson v. Chicago Board in the public sector and Beck v. Communications Workers in the private sector an objecting employee cannot be compelled to support the “social, fraternal, and political” activities of a union by being forced to pay full dues, but can be force to pay a fee for collective bargaining services rendered by the union. Of course, adultery is still illegal in lots of places and that must be why nobody does it.
