It is hereby declared to be the public policy of Virginia that the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor union or labor organization.
Va. Code Ann. § 40.1-58
Policy of article
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case King v. Gemini Food Services, Inc. (1976)
Most recently applied in 156 Wash. 2d 543 - State ex rel. Public Disclosure Commission v. Washington Education Ass'n (March 2006)
Code 1950, § 40-68; 1970, c. 321.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.