Keeping it Right with Right-to-Work Laws
28 February 2020
Vinnie Vernuccio, Labor Policy Senior Fellow at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy's Workers for Opportunity, discusses the current status of right-to-work laws in the United States in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, Country, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, and legislation currently under consideration in several states.
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