Wisconsin’s fast tracking of a new law that restricts union financing illustrates the election leverage for Republican candidates of such legislation and it may not be long before a majority of the United States are ‘anti-union’ or ‘defenders of the ‘right to work’’, as the slogan used by those who favor union-free business goes.
On Monday March 09 the US industry belt State of Wisconsin became the 25th State (after Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, three years ago, c.f. article Nos. 120061, 120733, 110682) to ban unions from imposing union dues on all employees (union members or not), which pay for the costs of collective negotiations, although this provision is part of federal union law. From Florida to Idaho and from Michigan to Texas, half of the America’s States now include this type of legislation that...
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