In state capitals around the country, leaders are strengthening our nation’s economy and protecting individual liberty by protecting worker freedom. Work is critical to the American dream and the earned success and the dignity that can bring to all individuals.
The United States economy and the job market, which is a part of that, has become the envy of the world by unleashing competition in the free market and giving every American the ability to use their God-given talents to produce for themselves and others. Absent government interference, workers, families, and businesses are able to pursue the work arrangements that best work for them. Too often, when governments get in the way, however, they destroy voluntary work practices and decimate economic opportunity for those workers.
The recently released States That Work report from our organization, the American Legislative Exchange Council, provides a roadmap for labor policy across the states, looking at key policy variables. It shows which states support worker freedom and which others have pursued burdensome labor regulations.
One of the key policies in this report is what they call right to work. Those states with right-to-work laws give workers the fundamental choice if they would like to join a union. But in the states without these policies, workers are forced to join a union as a condition for their employment and pay dues to that union regardless of whether they believe the union is providing enough value for...
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