• Promethiel@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Smallest of corrections because the bastards are multiple flavors of bastards: ’

    ‘At will employment’ is the "fire you for any or no reason so long as we don’t transparently enough do it for/to the small list of protected reasons or qualifying personal attributes for protected class status.

    The sick joke is that you can terminate your employment ‘At will’ too, unlike those other work contract places isn’t that liberating!

    That one is in all of the US.

    ‘Right to work’ would be the anti-union version which applies to some states that have gone extra harder than the other ones to prevent the evil evil unions. Plenty of folks better suited than me to explain more around Lemmy.

    The sick joke with that one is that you have “the right to work” even when that evil evil union is doing collective bargaining outside with funky signs!

    Person who replied to who I replied to; the list of shit Americans ought to be focusing on legislating for is intentionally multi-faceted and obtuse; do you really think such simple insight beyond what you would consider obvious? Our great thinkers aren’t dumb, they’re oppressed.

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      6 months ago

      To double down on the “um actually…”

      Right to work laws guarantee the benefits of a union while also removing the requirement to pay for that union. The goal is to have enough people try to get a free ride with the union that it collapses under it’s own weight.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think that your great thinkers are dumb. I think they are ignored by the masses. As dumb as your voting system is, it is still a functioning voting system. And yet the only change it seems to bring is what the level of intolerance and hate is in your country.