FAQ - What's a Right To Work Law? - National Right To Work Committee

FAQ – What’s a Right To Work Law?

A Right to Work law guarantees that no person can be compelled, as a condition of employment, to join or pay dues or “fees” to a labor union.

Such a law also reaffirms and strengthens the existing federal labor-law provisions that bar (prevent) hiring discrimination against non-union members. Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act affirms the right of states to enact Right to Work laws.

Currently 27 states have passed such laws.

Other Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is the Right to Work principle?

What is 14(b)?

Is National Right To Work Committee “anti-union” or “pro-union”?

What is “exclusive representation”?

What do union propagandists mean by the term “free rider”?

What effect does a Right to Work law have on a state’s standard of living?

What is the “Freedom from Union Violence Act”?

What is the National Right to Work Act?

November 21

Support For Ending Forced-Dues Escalating

Thanks largely to aggressive grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate early this year continues to rise. S.525 and H.R.2571, respectively introduced early in the 2019-20 Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), had a combined total of nearly 100 sponsors as this Newsletter went to press in early October. These essentially identical bills would not add a single word to federal labor law. Instead, they would simply repeal the current provisions in the federal code that authorize and promote the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union.