Governing: There’s no question that Alabama and Virginia already prohibit employers from forcing their workers to join a union. The states have had so-called “right-to-work” laws on their books since the days of Truman and Eisenhower.
But voters in both states will decide this November whether those policies should be included in their states’ constitutions.
The Republican-controlled legislatures in both states proposed the amendments as a way to make the anti-union policies permanent. Doing so, argues the Virginia chapter of AFL-CIO, which represents labor unions, “is unnecessary, wastes taxpayer money and would be nearly impossible to reverse.”
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