Michigan close to becoming Right to Work State

[Karee 4,191]

That's a questionable statement. As unions have become less relevant, working conditions, pay and benefits have not exactly improved. In fact, they are eroding quite rapidly.

There's a reason companies move to right to work states.

Unions also have played a role in manufacturing jobs being shipped overseas. Kinda hard to have a manufacturing labor union, when there's no manufacturing jobs. Products have to be competitive worldwide now. Paying somone $35 an hour union wages to screw on the same bolt over and over all day isn't going to make you competitive in the global marketplace.

[decocker 7,198]

coming from virginia, i don't know how it is anywhere else, if you're the working man, just take your lumps and leave while you're at it. and boy do we love our temp agencies...

[Karee 4,191]

The correct nomenclature is 'Right to Work for Less, State', but it looks too long for headlines and politically hindering for those attempting to smoke and mirror their constituency, so they shortened it to a more palatable title...

It's called a free market system. Don't like your current salary, find a better paying job.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

There's a reason companies move to right to work states.

Yes, there is. More rights for employers, less for employees. Smaller compensation packages to boot. It's a paradise for employers. Not sure it's so great for employees and judging from the developments regarding compensation and working conditions that went along with the proliferation of right to work states, can't say that it's great for the national economy and the country as a whole.

[Golden Gate 530]

Right to Work is double-speak. It means you have less rights. You can be fired at will. You have no power as a worker. It is awful. It is why North Carolina has consistently low salaries for teachers. They are a right to work state. They just get rid of you when you are about to get tenure, because they know they can just hire someone new to replace you.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I'm assuming it means you wont be forced to join a union to work in a particular job.

I don't know what you call it when you get thrown off a job site for not having your union card on you? Or when the janitors go on strike, I can't go to work for 3 weeks because the union I belong to can't cross their picket line.

As far as I know, it entails laws like the right to leave a job without notice or be fired or be let go without notice or severance...at least thats the case here.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Holy Smoke . . . Hitler had a right to work country already in 1933. If you were just "hanging out" in the street like many of the gang bangers in Michigan do, he'd even make sure that you exercise your right to work. Unemployment became rather unknown in the late 1930s and early 1940s in the German Empire.

[Golden Gate 530]

Holy Smoke . . . Hitler had a right to work country already in 1933. If you were just "hanging out" in the street like many of the gang bangers in Michigan do, he'd even make sure that you exercise your right to work. Unemployment became rather unknown in the late 1930s and early 1940s in the German Empire.

Well, here there aren't jobs to put everyone to work, at least not at a living wage, so not sure how this is similar to Germany in 1933. Of course, everyone has a right to work, but that isn't what Right to Work means in this context.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I put pro right to work right up there with hiring illegals seeing how one usually compliments the other.

[Golden Gate 530]

GOP, Koch Brothers Sneak Attack Guts Labor Rights in Michigan

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[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

GOP, Koch Brothers Sneak Attack Guts Labor Rights in Michigan

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This isn't going to turn out good. I haven't come across many non union commercial construction outfits...if any, that were worth a nickel. btw that guy in the pic they labeled as a steel worker is actually an iron worker.

[Karee 4,191]

GOP, Koch Brothers Sneak Attack Guts Labor Rights in Michigan

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The Nation is the oldest continuously-published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left."

[Golden Gate 530]

The Nation is the oldest continuously-published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left."

So? They are right. Look at my video in my signature.

[Karee 4,191]

So? They are right. Look at my video in my signature.

Why are they right? Because you say so? I don't have time to watch an hour long video. Post something from a somewhat non-partisan publication. That source is like me quoting something from Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh and calling it unbiased journalism.

I grew up in Detroit, so I know all about unions and how they work and don't work.

[Golden Gate 530]

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