Comment on Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt?

eatham@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Tinidril@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s an orwellian term for a package of anti-worker and anti-union laws. The centerpiece where the name comes from is making it illegal for a union shop to require workers to pay union dues.

  source

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s not your right to (do) work. It’s the employer’s right to (have) work (provided to them at low cost).

    source
• Skydancer@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Also called “at will” employment. The employer can fire you “at will” and you have the “right to work” somewhere else.

  What it actually is is a union busting law. You have the “right to work” for an employer without being required to join a union. Generally this means being covered by any collective bargaining agreement but not paying the union dues. Which means the union collapses because it can’t afford to keep itself running. These are the laws that collapsed the American trade union movement.

  source

  • s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “At will” and “right to work” are two different laws. You accurately described “at will employment.” “Right to work” laws make it illegal for unions to mandate the dues that you would pay them. It effectively defunding and disempowering unions.

    According to Wikipedia, “In the context of labor law in the United States, the term right-to-work laws refers to state laws that prohibit union security agreements between employers and labor unions. Such agreements can be incorporated into union contracts to require employees who are not union members to contribute to the costs of union representation.”

    source