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I'm confused. In spite of being a right to work state, Alabama, Arizona and Arkansas [1] all have teachers unions.

http://www.myaea.org/

http://www.arizonaea.org/

http://www.aeaonline.org/

Why would you believe that right to work states would not have teachers unions? It's true that a right to work state will probably not have unions the workers don't want, but that isn't the same thing.

[1] I'm not cherry picking, just working down this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law#U.S._states_w...




Every state has public sector employee unions. The UAW is also in most right-to-work states. But the vast majority of employees (public and private) are not members of those unions and I'm positive that teacher contracts in RTW states are not collectively bargained.




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