For those that dont understand Right to WorkThis article is about the U.S. laws that limit collective bargaining. For the human rights concept aimed to guarantee jobs, see right to work. Not to be confused with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, an Indian law which guarantees rural laborers the 100 days of paid labor each year. A right-to-work law is a statute in the United States that prohibits union security agreements, or agreements between labor unions and employers, that govern the extent to which an established union can require employees membership, payment of union dues, or fees as a condition of employment, either before or after hiring. Right-to-work laws do not, as the short phrase might suggest, aim to provide a general guarantee of employment to people seeking work, but rather are a government regulation of the contractual agreements between employers and labor unions that prevents them from excluding non-union workers,[1] or requiring employees to pay a fee to unions that have negotiated the labor contract all the employees work under. Right-to-work provisions (either by law or by constitutional provision) exist in 24 U.S. states, mostly in the southern and western United States, but also including, as of 2012, the midwestern states of Michigan[2] and Indiana.[3] Business interests represented by the Chamber of Commerce have lobbied extensively to pass right-to-work legislation.[4][5][6][7] Such laws are allowed under the 1947 federal Taft–Hartley Act. A further distinction is often made within the law between those employed by state and municipal governments and those employed by the private sector with states that are otherwise union shop (i.e., pay union dues or lose the job) having right to work laws in effect for government employees.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:58:09 +0000
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