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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
- 28 Can Labor Law Reform Encourage Robust Economic Democracy?
- 29 Union Security for the Twenty-First Century
- 30 Union Membership and the Ghent System
- 31 Principled Hope
- 32 Politically Engaged Unionism
- 33 Union Commitment to Racial Diversity
- 34 The Economics of Minimum Wage Regulations
- 35 The Role of Labor Research and Education in the Labor Movement of the Twenty-First Century
29 - Union Security for the Twenty-First Century
from Part VI - Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
- 28 Can Labor Law Reform Encourage Robust Economic Democracy?
- 29 Union Security for the Twenty-First Century
- 30 Union Membership and the Ghent System
- 31 Principled Hope
- 32 Politically Engaged Unionism
- 33 Union Commitment to Racial Diversity
- 34 The Economics of Minimum Wage Regulations
- 35 The Role of Labor Research and Education in the Labor Movement of the Twenty-First Century
Summary
This chapter considers the future of union security in the wake of six decades of constitutional and statutory attacks on union dues and fair share fees. The chapter briefly surveys statutory and constitutional restrictions on union security agreements, fair share fees, dues checkoff through payroll deduction, and democratic workplace representation based on majority rule. It then explores mechanisms that would allow unions to develop relationships with the workers they represent, which is the key to sustainable funding and union-worker accountability. As the Supreme Court will certainly have many more opportunities to decide cases that would outlaw various forms of union-worker advocacy, including the settled principle of workplace democracy based on majority rule, the future of union security can be assured only by continuous organizing.
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