One of corporate America’s next big goals might surprise you: passing legislation to prevent unions from having to represent workers who don’t pay dues. This the latest of many business-friendly labor law reforms proliferating across the country.

Over the past decade, the Republican Party has ascended to become the dominant political force in the US government, controlling two-thirds of state legislatures, a majority of governorships, both houses of Congress, and the White House. Conservatives also make up a majority on the Supreme Court. This growth in power of the GOP has also given rise to a new slew of anti-union legislation.

States in over half the country have passed open-shop laws, euphemistically referred to as “right-to-work.” And a recent Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME, means the country’s entire public sector is now open shop.