The second argument cites the traditional rationale for collective bargain¬ing. Defenders of right-to-work laws argue that wages and benefits are more appropriately determined through a process of individual bargaining between employee and employer. In response, the traditional rationale for collective bargaining argues that bargaining is fair only when the parties are equal. Fair bargaining requires an equal incentive to compromise in the give and take of negotiation. In this context, equality means equally free to accept or reject the employment conditions. Only in this case is an agreement guaranteed to be mutually beneficial and optimally satisfactory. However, the two sides of this bargaining are a single employer and a collection of employees, and the bar¬gaining will only be equal if all of the employees bargain collectively. With¬out collective bargainings employers have little or no incentive to compromise with any single employee when they can continue to negotiate with all other employees individually. This suggests that there are good reasons for denying that in industries in which collective bargaining exists, individual employees do not have a "right to work" in this sense.