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Ron Johnson: “Individual employees are forced to join unions or forced to…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Ron Johnson on Fox Business -- 2/23/11

Published | Video Starts at 03:39

Is that the way to go to make it so that unions can't force workers to join a union so that they're not necessarily in the driver's seat? Well, I'm all about freedom and I've never really quite understood why Individual employees are forced to join unions or forced to pay dues. And so again, I think it's legitimate question to ask how, how can we rebalance this equation and particularly when it comes to public sector unions, you know, the taxpayers should be represented at the bargaining table. (03:39–03:44)

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