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What on earth was the justification for that? "We hate collective bargaining but want the benefits of collective bargaining"?

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I mean, if you are anti-union, it's a pretty genius play politically because it legalizes and incentivizes free riding.

Unions exist on dues. As organizations, they were already weakening, and then if you further limit membership, you've really undermined their ability to collective bargain.

I get why they did it, I just don't get how they sold it to either people or corporate backers. The former may have been financially incentivized enough to override their ideology, but I would have thought the later would be dead against it. Or are there not a lot of half union shops?

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