Unions, Who Wants Them?

American workers, when allowed voluntary unionism without government putting its thumb on the scale, by and large do not choose to join unions. The U.S. has mostly been able to avoid strikes of that kind, in large part because Taft-Hartley prohibits many of the tactics that lead to them and conservatives have effectively defended the law. FEATURES ON February 27, Representative Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) introduced the National Right to Work Act, a one-page bill to amend federal labor law and enshrine at the national level the right-to-work protections that 27 states already have. The Taft-Hartley Act amended the NLRA to prohibit many of organized labor's most destructive practices, such as jurisdictional strikes (striking over the way work is assigned between unions), secondary strikes (striking against companies that do business with a company that is being struck against), and solidarity strikes (striking in support of another union's strike or for a general political purpose). [Extracted from the article]