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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6243136" data-attributes="member: 2525">Whether one supports a right-to-work law might be political, but it's a concept that comes up often enough in the news that it might be useful to know what it means.  Roughly 1/2 the U.S. states have right-to-work laws.  What it means, in general (though they vary) is that labor unions cannot mandate employee membership, payment of union dues, or fees as a condition of employment.  You can still have a union in those states, they just cannot make it a condition that you join the union to work at a company that has a union.What this has to do with non-competes is that other employment laws (like the enforceability of a non-compete clause) tend to go in groups, often depending on whether a State is a right-to-work state or not.</blockquote>