Right-to-work laws face serious challenges this year in both the courts and at the ballot box. Labor has recently launched lawsuits challenging the laws in Idaho, West Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as pushed a ballot initiative in South Dakota that amounts to a back-door repeal of right-to-work.

In all of these cases, unions are relying on the so-called “free-rider problem” to justify forcing everyone in a unionized shop to pay up if they want to keep their jobs. They argue that since they, by law, must represent all workers through collective bargaining, it’s right and fair that they should be paid for their efforts. They have half a point here, but their choice-destroying remedy is the wrong way to go for America.