A so-called “free rider” is a misnomer devised by union officials seeking to force payments from people who want no part of the union.
Forced unionism advocates use the term to demean employees who do not pay for unwanted monopoly union representation but are forced to accept it because of a an exclusive bargaining contract with their employer.
Such employees are actually “captive passengers.”
The legal notices explain that, despite this massive expansion of government-granted power for Michigan union bosses, private sector workers still have rights under federal law to opt out of formal union membership and to refuse to pay for union political or ideological expenditures, among other rights.
Mark Mix and Kevin Hogan on NTD News discuss the introduction of the National Right to Work Act in the US House by Congressman Joe Wilson (SC).
“In an age of legislative overreach, this is one of the shortest bills ever introduced. The National Right to Work Act does not add a single word to federal law. It simply removes language in depression-era law that gives union officials the power to extract dues from non-union workers as a condition of employment.”