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Title: Unions Are Losing Their Decades-Long ‘Right-to-Work’ Fight

*Author: *Josh Eidelson

*Source:* Bloomberg

*Date:* Feb 16, 2017

Summary: Last year the total share of U.S. workers who belong to a union fell to 10.7 percent, a record low. That number could go a lot lower in the next few years. Following decades of declining membership, unions face an existential crisis as right-to-work https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-03/rand-paul-s-favorite-union-buster laws being pushed at state and federal levels would ban their ability to collect mandatory fees from the workers they represent, a key source of revenue for organized labor.

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