Workers’ interests and freedom of association

Recent times have seen a flurry of union-related activity in America, from a Friedrichs/Janus twofer at the Supreme Court to Scott Walker’s union battles in Wisconsin to rising support for right-to-work laws. Throughout, unions have maintained that they are justified by their workers’ freedom of association.
Freedom of association means individual workers have a right to choose not to work under terms offered by an employer, and the derived power to do so jointly. But no union stops