I have to join a union to  get a State of Oregon job.

You keep ignoring that issue.  The playing field is not level if I have to buy my way into the job by paying money to a third party just to have any job with the State.  I am not a 'freeloader', I am a wage slave subject to the whims of the union.

I don't have to pay a cover charge to go drink with my buddies.  I or we can go someplace without a cover charge.