History of Right-to-Work Laws . In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), or the Wagner Act, was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.

New evidence shows that right-to-work laws that give workers the freedom to opt out of labor unions increase workers’ life satisfaction. Politicians that want to help unions by eliminating such ...

But right-to-work laws remain deeply divisive in Michigan and across the country. "No one should be forced to pay tribute to a union boss in order to get or keep a job," the 58-year-old National ...

Updated at 6:10 a.m. ET. Voters in Missouri have overwhelmingly rejected a right-to-work law passed by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned compulsory union fees ...

Often, my columns result from questions directed to me by friends, clients or associates. When I get asked the same questions several times, my nimble mind leaps to the conclusion that there may be ...

It's not widely known, but an earlier generation of libertarians condemned so-called right-to-work laws as anti-market. For example, Milton Friedman, in Capitalism and Freedom, compared right-to ...

Right-to-work laws bar labor unions from requiring private-sector employees to join and pay dues. Such laws have been in place, primarily in Southern states, since the late 1940s.

The enactment of a so-called right-to-work law by the state of Michigan this week is indeed, as the media have described it, a blow against the union movement. Michigan, of all places. But it is ...

Updated: 5:27 p.m. ET. INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana is the first Rust Belt state to enact the contentious right-to-work labor law prohibiting labor contracts that require workers to pay union ...

A state appeals court has reversed a Dane County judge’s ruling that Wisconsin’s right-to-work law was unconstitutional, potentially bringing to close a series of legal challenges to the law ...

Michigan lawmakers have voted to repeal the state's right-to-work law, which allows workers to opt out of paying union dues. Republicans call the move a setback for the state's economy.

More than 400 Wisconsin firms in construction contracting oppose the Republican push for a "right-to-work" law, which would block companies and workers from signing agreements requiring employees ...