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.

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.

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. This is meant to starve the union and eventually kill it.

If a workplace unionizes, all employees at that level become part of the same collective bargaining bloc (by necessity), and the union will protect them and bargain on their behalf. 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).

"Right to work" is provided under the guise of giving the employee more freedom, but in reality, it is just an underhanded way of killing unions.

Probably just made it more confusing but hopefully not.

Edit: I’m mixing up a at will employment with right to work. Sorry for the confusion. See updated comment below:

Right to work: Joining a union and paying union dues can no longer be a requirement of employment. This slowly degrades the power of the union and ultimately reduces wages and benefits of the workers

~~Right to work~~ At will employment 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.

right to work means you can have a job in a union shop without joining the union.

My grandpa was a snow plow driver for the state of MN (retired sometimes in the 1990s), but as a republican was always opposed to the union. He still paid union dues, but they were reduced and kept in a separate fund by the union and only used for contract negotiations (important for him - he was a big republican and the union political funds of course donates to democrats). Since he wasn't a member of the union he couldn't vote on union leadership, but the leadership called him one of their best people there because he always attended the union meetings where contacts were discussed. As you can start to see not being a union member when there is a union is really complex weird. I'm sure there is more about this that I don't know about (one obvious thing - what if they voted to go on strike)

"Right to Work" simply means "Anti-Union".

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

No, that would be called "right to die with dignity"

Even though that means the opposite of what it means anywhere else (euthanasia)

Yes, will they try it again?

I'll tell you exactly how. They've purposely gutted our education system.

Uh, I think you mean "fool-proof". Also, the US clearly keeps inventing more easily-conned fools...

That is a fullproof formula.

Bone apple tea to you my good sir

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.

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