 Rate to work. Rate to work. Someone is heckling the Teamster president, kind of wonkily, by screaming out the name of a policy that Teamsters hate. Rate to work is a shot directly into the heart of unions' ability to organize. It's at the very center of Republican labor policy. Rate to work allows workers to work in a union shop without having to pay union dues. Advocates of the policy say workers should get to choose what they want.