Heritage scholar James Sherk explains that unions are no longer organizations that protect the interests of workers in the private sector. Instead, the majority of union members are in government, sapping taxpayer dollars for benefits and pensions that private sector employees will never see—especially since the private, productive sector must finance these government workers’ benefits. 

Sherk cites California as an example of unions pushing for taxes on private entities to finance their entrenched government bureaucracy: “In California, the SEIU spent $1 million on a television ad campaign pressing for higher oil, gas, and liquor taxes instead of spending reductions.” 

Paycheck protection would transform California—and the rest of the nation.