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Unions notch win in deep-red Missouri with rejection of right-to-work law
By Eli Watkins, CNN
Updated 11:58 PM EDT, Tue August 07, 2018
 
(CNN) Missouri voters handed the state's unions and the labor movement nationwide a win Tuesday evening, opting to reject the state's right-to-work law.

Tuesday's referendum in the state gave voters the chance to strike down a law the state Legislature passed last year that would prohibit employees from being forced to join a union or to otherwise pay "fair share" fees to a given workplace's union. Rules like this are commonly referred to as "right-to-work" laws, and by prohibiting requirements for employees to join a union or pay fees to a union negotiating on their behalf, they are generally understood to weaken labor organizations in places where they are enacted.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/politics/missouri-right-to-work-vote/index.html

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