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Gov. Walker Wants to Lower Worker Pay in Wisconsin

Updated On: Mar 03, 2015

Mar. 3, 2015 | RTW4LESS | washingtonpost.com - … Let's be clear about what goes on in non-RTW states, as anti-union forces consistently distort current reality. In non-RTW states, no one has to join a union. There have been no "closed shops" in America for more than 20 years. When RTW advocates say they're fighting against "forced unionism," they are making stuff up. There's no such thing… So when Steve Moore of the Heritage Foundation claims that workers in non-RTW states "can be compelled to join a union and pay union dues at a union shop whether they want to or not" or that they "can even be forced to pay union dues for partisan political activities with which they don't agree," he's deep within a fact-free zone. Full story…