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potone

(1,701 posts)
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:01 PM Feb 2015

I am tired of anti-union legislation being called right-to-work.

I would like us to come up with another, more accurate term and am asking for suggestions. One possibility is right-to-serfdom, or right-to-debt slavery. What are your ideas?

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I am tired of anti-union legislation being called right-to-work. (Original Post) potone Feb 2015 OP
Right to starve; right to die; right to slave for pennies; right to peonage... ND-Dem Feb 2015 #1
I always call it TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #2
I've never liked the misleading term "right to work," either. Hoyt Feb 2015 #3
Right to shoot yourself in the foot. n/t A HERETIC I AM Feb 2015 #4
I'd call it backdoor slavery legislation meow2u3 Feb 2015 #5
Or at least finish the sentence truthfully. onecaliberal Feb 2015 #6
The right to work for less. 99Forever Feb 2015 #7
Representation without taxation Freddie Feb 2015 #8
the right to be used and abused or really truely, its anti-union. kydo Feb 2015 #9
You, of course, are right that it is anti-union, and follows the "pro-life" framing. potone Feb 2015 #12
Right to work for less. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2015 #10
That's what I call it, also! madinmaryland Feb 2015 #15
Agreed. aikoaiko Feb 2015 #11
Whenever someone says "right to work" Gman Feb 2015 #13
Right-to-toil Panich52 Feb 2015 #14
"Left" to scratch out a living. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2015 #16
Right to no representation AZ Progressive Feb 2015 #17
Right to Mooch Agony Feb 2015 #18
If you want to really confuse conservatives, explain that anti-union legislation is big government metalbot Feb 2015 #19
right to feudalism. pansypoo53219 Feb 2015 #20

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
5. I'd call it backdoor slavery legislation
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:09 PM
Feb 2015

...which is a borderline unconstutional violation of the 13th Amendment.

Freddie

(9,266 posts)
8. Representation without taxation
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:17 PM
Feb 2015

You could get all the benefits of union representation without having to contribute to the costs. Or (the right's goal) because of this, no union at all.

kydo

(2,679 posts)
9. the right to be used and abused or really truely, its anti-union.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:19 PM
Feb 2015

the 'right to work' BS is the rethug/wing nutter/1% framing the issue much in the same way they framed the abortion issue with 'pro-life', instead of the more applicable term of anti-abortion or anti-choice. Its a lie. A play on words that worked for the anti-choice lot. And it is working well for the right to work people. Despite the fact that right to work is really you giving up your right to work for a fare living wage. Anti-union. People buy it because white rich people say it is good.

Its craziness if you ask me. I never refer to the term right to work, I always call it what it is, anti-union.

potone

(1,701 posts)
12. You, of course, are right that it is anti-union, and follows the "pro-life" framing.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 04:09 PM
Feb 2015

The problem is that unions have been demonized to such an extent that many people have a knee-jerk reaction against them. I think the "right to work for less" description is a good one. It is accurate without being inflammatory.

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. They are all good, and I would welcome others.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
14. Right-to-toil
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 06:12 PM
Feb 2015

R2w is just more conserv spin, like death taxes, Reason Foundation, or Accuracy in Media. They have penchant f/ oxymoronic appellations.

metalbot

(1,058 posts)
19. If you want to really confuse conservatives, explain that anti-union legislation is big government
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 07:59 PM
Feb 2015

"Right to work" essentially says that 2 private entities (a corporation and a union) are prohibited by the big evil government from entering into an exclusive supplier agreement.

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