Not stopping there, Trumpov once urged union members not to pay union dues—how can a union survive and fight for higher wages if its members don’t pay dues?

Despite shared ownership, you can’t force anyone to pay dues into the account, either.

Critics of the system want foreign students to pay dues.

That decrease was driven, in part, by the decline of manufacturing in this country and the spread of factories to states, largely in the South, that prohibited unions from forcing workers to pay dues.

“It becomes very easy to siphon off union support in a factory when the wages are the same plus the workers don’t have to pay dues.”