Only 6 percent of all workers in the private sector who are represented by unions voted for it, according to a new study by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

In many cases, the workers took jobs at businesses that were already unionized, sometimes decades prior to their employment. Because federal labor law favors maintaining the status quo once a union is recognized, most of the workers never had a chance to weigh in — and are unlikely to ever get one.

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