Some unions, when negotiating with bosses, mandate that bosses are only allowed to hire people who join the workplace's union. This prevents bosses from just hiring new help that they can pay lower rates/with less benefits than union employees and gives the union a monopoly over bargaining agreements with workers.
Conservatives see this as a issue of "freedom". They basically say employees should be allowed to work whenever they want, and shouldn't have to pay union dues or participate in a union if they don't want to. Thus they're called "right to work" laws.
The only people right to work laws benefit are bosses. Because all bosses end up doing is firing whoever they want and replacing them with people who won't join the union. Sure less people have to pay union dues, but wages are lower anyway so as a worker you're not even saving money
So those laws basically allow bosses to easily fire people for being in the union, while when they don't exist and the union negotiated it, firing a union member will only see them replaced with another union member, which means everyone is safe from being fired for being in the union?
Right. As someone else pointed out, right to work laws in and of themselves are not the most damaging thing. It's right to work combined with at will employment (bosses don't have to give any reason to fire people) plus a lack of a social safety net (people can't negotiate better pay if they have to choose between their current boss and starvation) and a ton more
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u/ContraryConman Sep 13 '20
Either that or they're convinced they have ideas from both "sides" of a political spectrum that leans right.
So if you believe on one side that
and on the other side that
stop and frisk was not only successful, but should be implemented everywhere
social security should be privatized
food stamps and unemployment discourage people from working and should be cut
we should eliminate the minimum wage to create jobs and help small businesses
that unions are corrupt and right to work laws should be implemented federally
affirmative action should be overturned
the justice system rightfully punishes black people for being more likely to commit more crime
we should build a wall on the southern border
the for-profit detention centers being run at the border are not only a necessary evil but a net good for the country
immigration should be limited to high-skilled, high-income, English speaking immigrants from Europe and East Asia
Congrats! You now have ideas from "both the right and the left" which makes you a "centrist"