[Holden Magroin]

I believe that the laws which require workers to pay union dues against their will are unconstitutional, and should have been overturned years ago.

I also don't think nonunion workers should be forced to pay union dues, but let me play devil's advocate for a second.

Conservatives usually say that minimum wage laws should be repealed because the government has no right to tell businesses what to pay their employees. If the worker doesn't like what he's getting paid, they argue, he should just get another job. So don't you think that if a worker doesn't want to pay union dues, he should just look for another job?

[On the Road to Serfdom]

You would have a point if the employer was the one making union membership manditory. However, what we are talking about here is the goverment forcing people who work at the business to pay money to a union even though both parties to the transaction-employer and employee-would prefer that no money be paid to the union.

[Taxman]

NO!

There is a hellofa difference between "forced unionism" and the minimum wage laws. [BTW, I am opposed to minimum wage laws as well.] Forcing someone who otherwise might like their job to pay union dues under threat of losing their job is tryanny of the worse sort.

People have a right to voluntarily join together in labor unions, but they certainly do not have the right to force anyone else to support them.

The crime is called extortion. It is a protection racket which benefits only the union bosses and should never have been allowed into law. America is a poorer nation and all Americanx have all suffered grievous harm because of this flawed notion.