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House votes: Michigan is going to become a 'right-to-work' state for all

Think--why is a law needed to create a right that already exists?

Is anyone in the other states forcing employers to hire only union members?

It is giving the individual the right to work at any place or in any field they want without being forced to join a 3rd party organization they do not want to join. It does not take away any rights of workers that want to work in a specific field and join the union. It also does not take away the right of the union to sign up employees that want to engage with the union.
 
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Yep.

No business could be a closed shop unless it voluntarily agreed, via contract to be one.

The notion that the absence of a so-called "right-to-work" law forced any employer to be a closed shop is just right wing kool-aid.

I'm not talking about the business itself getting to make a choice. I'm talking about the employees getting to make a choice. The problem is that it only takes a simple majority to create a closed shop, so there will usually be employees who didn't want to be part of the union, but are now forced to be anyway. And any employees who were hired after the closed shop was already created weren't even given a chance to vote on it.

Of course you could just say "well they can just get a job elsewhere" but in a heavily unionized area like SE Michigan, that's not really a very viable option.
 
Of course you could just say "well they can just get a job elsewhere" but in a heavily unionized area like SE Michigan, that's not really a very viable option.

Agreed, and we can see what has happened to SE Michigan over the last couple of decades...
 
Welcome to the club Michigan! Congrats.
 
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