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The Case Against Public-Sector Unions

The Case Against Public-Sector Unions Authored by Aaron White via RealClearPolicy, America’s public-sector unions have a problem they can’t explain away: Workers are leaving. Ask a public employee when they joined their union and most couldn’t tell you. Because they didn’t join. The dues just started coming out of their check. That’s not a membership, and for decades nobody told workers they could opt out. That changed in 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Janus v. AFSCME that no government employee can be forced to join or pay dues to a labor union. Hundreds of...
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