One more step closer to The Handmaid's Tale.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Next stop:

Comments

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

> You're still focused on the unions being able to do whatever they want.

No, I'm focusing on what they typically do, and what laws are typically made to regulate and curtail their power, and what names the laws have typically been given. "Right-to-work", as a descriptor of legislation, explicitly refers to regulating a union's ability to enter into certain kinds of exclusive contracts. That's what it means... that's where the phrase comes from. Laws exist that prevent unions and employers from making union membership a condition of employment, because non-union members have "A right to work".

> If an employer wants a union-only shop, that should be fine

What if the employer doesn't want it... but the employees do? Why is the owner's opinion in any way RELEVANT?

If a union is an organized free association of the employees, where does an employer get the power to deny employees their free association outside of work?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

What if the employer doesn't want it... but the employees do? Why is the owner's opinion in any way RELEVANT?

They're the ones running the company, paying the wages, etc. They are the relevant party purchasing the labor. Why on earth should labor be granted any legal preference?

If a union is an organized free association of the employees, where does an employer get the power to deny employees their free association outside of work?

They can associate outside of work as much as possible. What's being discussed is inside of work.

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

> They're the ones running the company, paying the wages, etc. They are the relevant party purchasing the labor.
> Why on earth should labor be granted any legal preference?

So, being able to enter into a free association outside of work is a legal preference?

> They can associate outside of work as much as possible. What's being discussed is inside of work.

So, union organization and decisions are completely free, so long as they are not made on the clock?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

So, union organization and decisions are completely free, so long as they are not made on the clock?

That's how it should be.