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 BA>>> Actually there is a precedent of sorts - requiring
 BA>>> membership in a (private) labor
 BA>>> organization in order to get or keep a job.

 BK>>  Other than construction work I don't know of any place
 BK>> union  membership is necessary to get a job.

 BA> The Union Pacific Railroad requires union membership.
 BA> Presumably the other big railroads (BNSF, NS, etc.) are
 BA> also union shops.  UP has some of the most ridiculous
 BA> (union driven) work rules and policies I've ever seen.

 Once you get hired you are enrolled in the union. But do you
 have to be in the union before you are hired? I haven't heard of
 that in the railroads.

 BA> Back in the early 1990s the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
 BA> demanded that UP require membership in their union by all
 BA> of the railroad's IT professionals.  The railroad said
 BA> 'OK.'  The *employees* sued the railroad over that forced
 BA> membership - and lost.

 They were already working for the railroad. Though salaried
 employees may be exempt, they usually are, it might depend on
 just what they do.



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