• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      No, that would be called “right to die with dignity”

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

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    8 hours ago

    A quick Google search:

    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.

    And I still don’t know what right-to-work laws are.

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      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.

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      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).

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      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

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      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
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      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.

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    “right to work” is the same bullshit nomenclature as ‘pro-life’ programs that lead to womens deaths.

    its lies to convince the common man to vote against their best interests.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    7 hours 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.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      7 hours 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.