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> If the market is free, why can't employees decide to group together and negotiate a contract with a company that precludes the hiring of non-union employees?
by stale2002 3y ago
> If the market is free, why can't employees decide to group together and negotiate a contract with a company that precludes the hiring of non-union employees?
> Sounds like freedom of association with me.
Hey as long as it goes both ways. It would equally be freedom of association to fire any union employees.
Oh wait, that's illegal.
So instead of that, a fair compromise is that it should be equally illegal for firing someone either if they join or don't union a union.
That's what right to work laws do. They give equal protections to both union and non union employees.
- pseudalopex 3y ago> That's what right to work laws do. They give equal protections to both union and non union employees. No. Federal law and jurisprudence prohibit making union membership a condition of employment but compel unions to represent non members. So called right to work laws allow non members to withhold payment for the compelled representation.
- stale2002 3y agoGotcha. Unrelated to my point though. So the whole point is that the other person who I was responding to was wrong on the freedom of association angle. If is not freedom of association to only give protections to union members. Instead the fair thing would be for it to be illegal to fire either union members or non union members for their choice of whether they join the union or not. Also, laws that merely make union or non only shops disallowed would be the fair and equal freedom of association way to do things.