lol “Right to Work” - Conservatives love to use “freedom” words when they ban or restrict something. If they instituted the death penalty for criticizing the government it would be the “Freedom From Putting Up With Whining” Bill.
Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt?
Submitted 4 months ago by BadmanDan@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
No, that would be called “right to die with dignity”
Even though that means the opposite of what it means anywhere else (euthanasia)
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not your right to (do) work. It’s the employer’s right to (have) work (provided to them at low cost). So you’re absolutely right about the FFPUWW.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right to Bow To Employer’s Whim laws you mean?
BadmanDan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, will they try it again?
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Try it? They’ll enshrine it in the constitution with the control they have now.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Let me make this easy for everyone.
If something is detrimental to average Americans and beneficial to the wealthy, Republicans will absolutely attempt to do it.
That is a fullproof formula.
The part that’s hard to wrap your mind around is how average Americans can be so stupid as to elect them despite this being an easily provable fact.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Bone apple tea to you my good sir
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Missouri voted to amend their state constitution to enshrine abortion rights, and also voted in Republicans into national seats and the white house which is most likely going to result in a national abortion ban that overrides the state constitution.
People are morons.
AyuTsukasa@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’ll tell you exactly how. They’ve purposely gutted our education system.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Uh, I think you mean “fool-proof”. Also, the US clearly keeps inventing more easily-conned fools…
zbyte64@awful.systems 4 months ago
They’re onto killing a bigger fish: The National Labor Review Board.
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Relations not review
eatham@aussie.zone 4 months ago
What is a right to work law?
Tinidril@midwest.social 4 months 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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not your right to (do) work. It’s the employer’s right to (have) work (provided to them at low cost).
Skydancer@pawb.social 4 months 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.
s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 4 months 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.”
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Feel free to crosspost to !AskUSA@discuss.online
BadmanDan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thank you so much, this is what I was looking for.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Happy to help!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Srsly? They’ll never stop, any more than the pope will become a Muslim.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 months ago
A quick Google search:
And I still don’t know what right-to-work laws are.
LethalSmack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right to work is: A right to be fired at any point for any reason or no reason at all
The goal is to get around any union protections that require things like a legitimate reason to be fired from a job.
It also has the added bonus of drastically reducing the benefits of unions and making them much easier to prevent.
Dagrothus@reddthat.com 4 months ago
I love how we name laws that really mean the exact opposite of what their name implies. Very american.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The way I try to remember it is that it comes from the employers perspective:
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Being fired for any or no reason is at will employment.
Right to work has nothing to do with that. It’s about allowing people to not pay union dues. Those people are still protected by the union contract.
MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’re conflating “at will employment” with “right to work” laws.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I mix these two up as well - thanks for the clarification.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No union I’ve ever been part of required me being in it in order to work at a place. It was always optional. So strange.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They prevent you from having to join a union to work at a company. And you don’t have to pay dues either.
You can effectively benefit from the unions bargaining without supporting the union - which if enough people do that kills the union (the goal of the law).
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Right to Work” simply means “Anti-Union”.
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hopefully, I’m not wrong, but basically unions typically require Members Pay dues out of income. Right to work essentially forbid that practice making do payments optional. Which drives down the union revenue
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Unions typically have an agreement where employees don’t have to join the union but they still have to pay a fee equivalent to union dues, and the employer can’t pay non-members more than union members, or other similar restrictions.
The idea is to remove the ability for the employer to offer an advantage to non-members.
TLDR it’s an essential part of making a functional union.
modality@lemmy.myserv.one 4 months ago
Right to Work means you can have a union job but not join the union. You have the right to”right to work” without being a union member or paying any union dues. Generally it means you get all the benefits without contributing but also unions are usually a lot weaker since so many people opt out, so also the benefits are lesser. Because it is governed by state-level laws, details vary from state to state.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
That’s the whole fucking point. The name sounds like its a good thing though, right? So I’m sure that means it’s good…
But no, “Right to Work,” just means that employees are allowed to choose not to pay union dues (or even partial dues), despite receiving all of the benefits of being in that collective bargaining bloc.
If a workplace unionizes, all employees at that level become part of the same collective bargaining bloc, and the union will protect them. If you want to work in that position, you have to be a member of the union at some level (unless you are a government employee since the Janus SCOTUS decision).
Probably just made it more confusing but hopefully not.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Is it in Colorado? If it is, it’s a good thing. If not, it’s a bad thing. Right to work is a bad thing.
BadmanDan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Colorado does not have Right to Work