3 ms·
> The point of Right to Work is to prevent predatory unions from doing things like forcing people to pay dues to them or negotiating preferential treatment only
by afthonos 7y ago
> The point of Right to Work is to prevent predatory unions from doing things like forcing people to pay dues to them or negotiating preferential treatment only to people who choose to pay dues.
I am puzzled about how you can find both of these predatory. You seem to think the only ethical thing for a union to do is to negotiate rates for everyone, but not require anything in exchange. The word for that is “charity”.
This is exactly like requiring insurance companies to accept everyone, including people with ore-existing conditions, but not make the counter-requirement that people get insurance.
- throwaway2016a 7y agoThe purpose of a union is to provide collective bargaining not make a profit. However, people seem to be assuming what side I am on. I actually see it as OK for unions to negotiate for just their members. Pay dues if you want to enjoy the benefits of membership seems perfectly fine to me. I'm just listing that because that is one of the things Right to Work Laws try to do. I was simply saying that the point of them is not to be able to force people to work 40 hours overtime or get fired. Like the law in this article seems to do and what the parent comment says is equivalent to right to work. Though I will say that I do agree with the parts of Right to Work that makes it so the unions can't make membership a condition of employment or force you to go on strike.