Without State Coercion Workers Opt Out of Unions

In 2001 the Washington State legislature declared that self-employed home health care workers (the sort that come in and care for you when you're ill) were effectively state employees because some of their customers were Medicaid recipients. Hence they were required to join and pay dues to the Service Employees International Union whether they wanted to or not. Because the SEIU funnels money to Democrats in the legislature it's pretty obvious why they did this.  In June, 2104, the Supreme Court struck down this arrangement. Here's what's happened since.


                                                         August  2014             August 2015

Child Care Providers                              6633                           7103
SEIU Union Members                            6633                           3451
% Opting to Be Unionized                      100%                          48%  


Within a year of being freed of the state coercion to belong to a union, half of them have opted out.

This is very reminiscent of East Germany needing to build a wall to keep people from fleeing the "workers paradise" they had created.