The successful push to end the right of public-sector unions to collect agency-fee payments from nonmembers in order to weaken them may have backfired, if the gains in membership at two public-sector unions indicate anything.
Unions have feared that the Supreme Court ruling this past June would weaken them. In right-to-work states, which have laws that prevent union membership and paying dues from being conditions of employment, participation in unions has declined.
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