Everyone. The unions now must *prove* to potential members that they are worth joining and have their members’ best interests at heart instead of sitting around, screwing their members for ever more posh accommodations for their leadership.
In other words, unions have to do their ostensible jobs again. They can’t make a job pay-to-play before you can get hired in. They no longer get to take unwilling members’ money to spend on things they don’t agree with. Other unions can compete for members because potential members’ money isn’t automatically sent to one union or another.
Workers benefit as well - unions can’t lock out someone who disagrees with them, or who they just don’t like.
....”And while some unions have banded together, reinvigorated by a sense of betrayal by Republican lawmakers, they recognize that it might take decades to completely recover from the blows.
‘‘You’ve got to fight back, but this kind of thing is going to be a generational process,’’ Jerry Papa, a 62-year-old bus driver from Milwaukee, said during a rally against right-to-work on Thursday. ‘‘It’s going to take 25 to 40 years to correct problems Scott Walker’s done in 4½ years.’’....
...“I thought that the guy was too nice to ever be successful in politics,” Satran said. Now, Walker is governor, and Satran — having worked in politics for years — is a bartender at J. Paul’s in Georgetown. “Turns out I was wrong.”....