“You’re right, it does sound like EXTORTION, but if the cafeteria association is union then you pay or you don’t work. The Teamsters did it to me and I had no choice but to join the union at the company I was working for.”
Am I understanding this right? Are closed shops still legal in the US? They were abolished 30 years ago here in the UK.
NB - closed shop is the British term for an employer where union membership is mandatory.
The same term is used here. Whether they are legal is determined by state law. Right now 23 states do not allow closed shops and 27 states do allow them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_work_state#U.S._states_with_right-to-work_laws
The states marked in blue are where closed shops are illegal.
I live in OHIO. We are not a right to work state so closed shops are legal. SUCKS!