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Frank Garrison

Legal Associate

Cato Institute

Frank Garrison is a legal associate in the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies. Previously, he was a Law Clerk for the Pacific Legal Foundation and a Judicial Intern for Frank A. Shepherd of Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal. Frank holds a Juris Doctor from St. Thomas University School of Law and a Master of Laws from American University’s Washington College of Law.

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Can states forcibly unionize small businesses?

January 29, 2017
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Basic Economics

Imagine that you run a family daycare out of your home. You have no direct connection to the state government, but its bureaucrats decide that because you lack an “organized voice” as a profession, they’re going to appoint a union representative to speak on your behalf. So you get a union you didn’t choose and which you refuse to join. This union is now representing your “interests” before the state, which isn’t even your employer. All this despite the fact that you might not even agree with what the union is saying! It sounds far-fetched, but this is what’s happening to Mary Jarvis