{"id":1439,"date":"2015-02-26T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1439"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:04:33","slug":"right-to-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1439","title":{"rendered":"“Right to Work”"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 1, 2013<\/p>\n

\"oped130201<\/a><\/p>\n

To me, the words “Right to Work” suggest that if I am willing and able to work, I can reasonably expect to receive employment.\u00a0 In the real world, of course, the Employer has a “Right to Hire” which trumps any rights in that respect I might have.\u00a0 An employer doesn’t have to hire anybody if he finds someone else he thinks can do the job better, or if he doesn’t have enough work available to keep a hire occupied.\u00a0 That’s the way things are.<\/p>\n

But laws designated as “Right to Work” laws have nothing to do with that.\u00a0 They have little to do with the worker at all.\u00a0 They’re all about what accommodations employers have to make for Unions and about putting limitations on those Unions.<\/p>\n

Oh, “RTW” does protect a worker’s right not to have to pay union dues.\u00a0 I knew a guy at a union shop I used to work at who didn’t like his dues going political candidates he he opposed.\u00a0 The Union let him opt out; they had to, it was in the contratct.\u00a0 The Union was still legally required to represent him, and he still gained the wages and benefits of the contract the Union negotiated with Management.\u00c2 He just didn’t have to pay two hours of wages a month to get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 1, 2013 To me, the words “Right to Work” suggest that if I am willing and able to work, I can reasonably expect to receive employment.\u00a0 In the real world, of course, the Employer has a “Right to Hire”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":593,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1439","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kurtwilcken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1439\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}