Re:Tesla factory workers pushing for a union send demands to...
by DrScump on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:49PM
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No one is ever legally obligated to join a union in the U.S.
To "join": not officially. There have been cases of workers not having applications forwarded without including signed provisional cards (known as "card check" organizing[0]).
There is agency shop organizing in which workers have to pay full dues but do not have to join the union. It can be seen as a distinction without a difference to those who have to pay the dues.
Then there's full right-to-work situations, where unions cannot compel workers to join the union or pay dues as a prerequisite to work in that shop.
There is agency shop organizing in which workers have to pay full dues but do not have to join the union. It can be seen as a distinction without a difference to those who have to pay the dues.
Then there's full right-to-work situations, where unions cannot compel workers to join the union or pay dues as a prerequisite to work in that shop.
[0] http://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/how-union-card...
[Edit]: closed shop definitional error