Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) introduced legislation that would ensure that all American workers can “choose to refrain from joining or paying dues to a union as a condition for employment.” Their proposal, the National Right to Work Act of 2021, repeals six provisions of current federal law and regulation that grant labor unions power to collect mandatory membership dues from all employees in a workplace covered by a representation agreement. Twenty-seven states have adopted right-to-work laws since they were authorized by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, but the federal government hasn’t followed suit, despite a 1988 Supreme Court ruling in Communications Workers of America v. Beck that workers can’t be required to join a union as a condition of employment. “More than eight in 10 Americans say workers should be free to join a union if they want to, but no one should be forced to …