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Federal law allows for arrangements where employees can be required to join the union after being hired, or can choose to not join but have to pay the union a f
by zerocrates 3y ago
Federal law allows for arrangements where employees can be required to join the union after being hired, or can choose to not join but have to pay the union a fee for their representation.
"Right-to-work" states change this and don't allow those arrangements: employees are free to not join and not pay.
The "closed shop," where only members of the union are hired, is illegal everywhere in the US under federal law.
- wincy 3y agoYeah good luck working a job where everyone else is union and you’re not though, you’ll find your lunch missing and people will be total jerks to you at every possible turn…
- Animats 3y agoRight. - Closed shop - must belong to union to be hired. Outlawed in US in 1947. - Union shop - must join union after being hired. Not allowed in right-to-work US states. - Open shop - can optionally join union. - Yellow-dog contract - forbidden to join union. Outlawed in US in 1932. Violated by some US employers. US labor law dates from an era of strong unions, and basically outlines a set of rules under which management and labor can battle it out. Management won. In 1954, about 35% of US private sector workers belonged to a union. Today, that's about 6%. In Canada, 14% of private sector workers belong to a union today. In Germany, about 50%.