Labor

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These students may choose to join Culinary Workers Local 226 if they take jobs on the Las Vegas Strip. More than 90 percent of Culinary’s 60,000 mostly immigrant workers opt to be dues-paying members, even though Nevada law says they can’t be forced to pay unions for their services. Local 226 represents hotel and casino staff. Housekeepers in most Strip hotels start at $16 an hour with free health care and pension. (Associated Press)

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A worker is pictured during the lunch hour at the Federal Triangle in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Federal employees may be increasingly unhappy with their jobs. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Lucious Smith, 53, of Dade City, Fla., has been charged in the fatal stabbing of 25-year-old health care worker Steffanie Ross following her visit to his home on Monday, Dec. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Pasco County Sheriff's Office)

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A job hunter fills out an employment application at the Fort Lauderdale Career Fair in Dania Beach, Fla., on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The U.S. economy added a solid 146,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008, the Labor Department announced. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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An advertisement in the classified section of the Boston Herald newspaper calls attention to possible employment opportunities in a Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, photo taken in Walpole, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Job seekers join a line of hundreds of people at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com in New York on March 5, 2009. The Federal Reserve projects the unemployment rate will stay elevated until late 2015, suggesting it will keep short-term interest rates low for the next three years. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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**FILE** President Obama speaks to workers about the economy during a visit to Daimler Detroit Diesel in Redford, Mich., on Dec. 10, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Thousands of protesters gather for a rally on the state Capitol grounds in Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The crowd is protesting legislation that would make Michigan the 24th right-to-work state, banning requirements that nonunion employees pay unions for negotiating contracts and other services. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to sign his state’s right-to-work law this week. After Indiana became the Midwest’s first right-to-work state, it gained about 43,000 jobs and Michigan lost 7,300. (Associated Press)

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Union workers rally outside the Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 as Senate Republicans introduced right-to-work legislation in the waning days of the legislative session. The outnumbered Democrats pledged to resist the proposal and said rushing it through the legislative system would poison the state's political atmosphere. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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** FILE ** International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members stand outside the capitol in Lansing, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Union workers fill the entire of the Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Hundreds of chanting and cheering protesters streamed back into the Michigan Capitol after receiving a court order saying that the building must reopen. The pro-union crowd walked in as lawmakers were debating right-to-work legislation limiting union powers. The Republican-led House subsequently passed the bill with no Democratic support. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)