Yes, it is a Federal infringement on a state's rights. The Fed's would be correct if they pass a law affecting forced membership in a union for Federal employees. Beyond that, it is the Fed's taking power from the states. The reasoning doesn't make it right. If a state wants the economic benefit of RTW the people of that state can approve it.
I understand the negativity of the Feds demanding this - but is there a downside to the RTW concept?
Your “states’ rights” concept is totally wrong.
The federal government imposed forced unionism on the states with the passage of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act and the 1920s Railway Relations Act.
A National Right to Work Act would simply delete a number of lines from those two laws and most importantly remove the federal authorization for forcing workers to pay dues to a union. After its passage, then a state could pass a law imposing forced unionism on citizens. But, as it stands right now, the federal government has imposed forced unionism on the states.
Sure, any state as of now can pass a RTW law, but, shouldn’t a worker in a state have the right to work. Forced unionism is imposed on the states by the federal government.
This bill takes power away from the federal government by stripping forced dues authorization from those two 1920s and 1930s pieces of legislation.