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This article identifies three distinct concepts of workplace freedom of association, and traces their influence on the law of union security devices \u2014 contractual clauses that require workers, on pain of termination, to remit fees to unions. The \u201csocial democratic\u201d concept informed the passage of the NLRA and continues to inform social movement practice. It views workplace freedom of association as a means to the end of ensuring economic democracy, and endorses the so-called \u201cunion shop,\u201d under which workers must contribute both to unions\u2019 representational activities and to their political and legislative activities. The \u201ccivil libertarian\u201d concept was predominant in Supreme Court doctrine from the Warren Court era until recently. It emphasizes individual rights of expression and political participation, and backstopped the line of cases that declared the union shop unlawful but required workers to help defray representational expenses. The \u201cneoliberal\u201d concept now appears ascendant. It views market behavior as a form of expressive behavior, and views compulsory payment of any fees to unions as unconstitutional compelled association. Disaggregating these concepts can enrich debates around workplace freedom of association in two ways. First, doing so illustrates that the Court\u2019s recent union security cases are part of its broader project to constitutionalize a neoliberal political economy. Second, insofar as the social democratic concept is consistent with basic liberal principles, it could be the basis for a future, more egalitarian constitutional political economy. Download the paper <\/a>at SSRN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article identifies three distinct concepts of workplace freedom of association, and traces their influence on the law of union security devices \u2014 contractual clauses that require workers, on pain of termination, to remit fees to unions. The \u201csocial democratic\u201d concept informed the passage of the NLRA and continues to inform social movement practice. It views workplace freedom of association as a means to the end of ensuring economic democracy, and endorses the so-called \u201cunion shop,\u201d under which workers must contribute both to unions\u2019 representational activities and to their political and legislative activities. The \u201ccivil libertarian\u201d concept was predominant in Supreme Court doctrine from the Warren Court era until recently. It emphasizes individual rights of expression and political participation, and backstopped the line of cases that declared the union shop unlawful but required workers to help defray representational expenses. The \u201cneoliberal\u201d concept now appears ascendant. It views market behavior as a form of expressive behavior, and views compulsory payment of any fees to unions as unconstitutional compelled association. 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