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Open-shop laws threaten unions

Business leaders and politicians are talking about making Michigan the country's 23rd state with an open-shop or right-to-work law, according to USA Today.

Right-to-work is the phrase union opponents use to describe what unions call open shops. Under such laws, union membership is not required to get a job, and workers can choose whether they want to be in a union, even if a company is unionized.

That makes it harder for unions to organize new members in already-unionized plants and makes it more difficult to bring unions to new sites. Ultimately, unions say, it means more non-union workers earning lower non-union wages.

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