If you work for a unionized employer, it only makes sense you have to join the union; otherwise, you are a freeloader. No union, no job. Of course "right to work" just makes unions weaker because they don't have the resources to fight employers the way they would if they had a closed shop.
Nevada is "right to work," and the workers there are treated like crap. Lousy wage jobs are abundant there, at least what few jobs are left.
This issue has a history. In their initial formation in the 1930s and 1940s, the unions faced the problem of achieving stability in the face of the relentless hostility of the corporations to the struggle of workers. The closed shop and automatic dues check off system emerged as a means of preserving a certain organizational protection under capitalism and combating the union-busting of big business._____
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