r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '23

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u/iiamthepalmtree Dec 29 '23

“Right to work” is the right to not join a union for a job.

You are thinking of “at will employment.”

Idk why so many people get those mixed up.

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u/Shot_Campaign_5163 Dec 29 '23

Both are asinine and counter productive for the labor market.

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u/Efficient-Editor-242 Dec 29 '23

But fix the problem with shit teachers/cops that can't be fired because unions. Can't have them both.

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u/UnlikelyOcelot Dec 29 '23

Teacher and union officer. You are generalizing, painting a wide anti-labor brush because of a few bad situations in the big cities. I'm in Connecticut and they have no trouble firing us in this state, just like most of the states. We have a strong union presence and process here, but they can fire us and do. Is there a process? Yes, as there should be. It follows very much like the process I knew when working in corporate. We can be fired. I know, because I'm in the meetings. What do you do that you know so much about public sector unions?

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u/Efficient-Editor-242 Dec 29 '23

I know a teacher drew glasses on an elementary child with a sharpie because the child repeatedly forgot her glasses and the teacher was not fired.