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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:55 AM Original message |
explain Right to Work like I am illiterate |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. You can be fired anytime for any reason or even no reason. |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. No, that's "at will employment." |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Whoops, replied to the wrong person. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. No closed union shops n/t |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. You beat me to it. |
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Beausoleil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. "fire at will" |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. No, that's "at will employment" |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
7. Conversely |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. Wow, never thought of it that way. |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
8. Arizona is a "right to work state" |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. "Right to work," also known as "right to starve," |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. Right to work= your boss can pay you shit wages and fire you when he wants |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. No, that's at-will employment. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I was editing as you were replying |
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louis c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
14. Here it is |
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Union Thug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
15. It's an oxymoron. Under right to work, you have no right to any democratic institutions |
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WyLoochka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
16. It was designed to dilute, |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
17. "Right to work" laws are designed to cripple labor unions by creating a freeloader problem. |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
18. I knew I could depend on DUers for a answer |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. Ok, I know a little bit about this |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Right, much better explanation |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. well, the right wing |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Well, I was just trying to think of quick words |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. and you're 100% right |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. It is Right wing language for a state that prohibits |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
22. Thanks to all those above who defined "right to work" correctly |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
23. Simply another tool to inhibit collective bargaining. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
27. "Right To Work" = right to be paid less, abused more, and not organize. ("Scab Empowerment") |
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
29. It's your employer's right to work you to death |
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