As our election approaches, the status of Virginia workers’ rights hangs in the balance.

Virginia voters will make a choice that could preserve — or destroy — the ability of workers to decide freely whether to join and pay dues to a union.

Since 1947, Virginia workers have enjoyed right-to-work protections, which means they have the freedom to join or support a union in their workplaces — or refrain from both.

But some commonwealth politicians have expressed that vague reforms of Virginia’s right-to-work law “may be necessary” or that the law should be done away with completely. That would return Virginia to a system that lets unions force workers to pay up or be fired.

Virginians by and large don’t agree with this vision. Surveys show time and time again that up to 89% of Virginians o

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