Right-to-work vs Unions

[Lau2046]

Yup, right to work law = ban on union security clause, aka union shop.

It don't means you have RIGHT to get a job, like tell Walmart - I need job now because I have RIGHT to get a job.

I didn't realize Walmart was such a great place to work. They pay crap, they treat their employees like crap, and they treat their customers like crap. You want to work there? As far as the right to get a job - everyone in this country has that right - and the employers have a right not to hire you. At the federal level all I see the unions do is save the jobs of employees that do nothing, while offering zero assistance to those that do.....in my former agency, we were all "in the union" and not by choice, but whether we liked it or not. Five years with all the money they took from my salary, they never had my back once. I'm so grateful in my new job I have the choice not to join. I need that money to help pay my gas.


Laura

 

[Foxrac]

I didn't realize Walmart was such a great place to work. They pay crap, they treat their employees like crap, and they treat their customers like crap. You want to work there? As far as the right to get a job - everyone in this country has that right - and the employers have a right not to hire you. At the federal level all I see the unions do is save the jobs of employees that do nothing, while offering zero assistance to those that do.....in my former agency, we were all "in the union" and not by choice, but whether we liked it or not. Five years with all the money they took from my salary, they never had my back once. I'm so grateful in my new job I have the choice not to join. I need that money to help pay my gas.

Laura

The federal employees have choice to not join the union (also not pay union dues) so the law has been around for many years, also the striking is illegal too.

I'm just use Walmart as example because many people don't understand about what right to work law means, so it doesn't mention that you have right to work, but only allow you to refuse to join the union and not pay union dues. For example, if you work at unionized workplace (non-federal) in Massachusetts so you are required to join the union about 30 days after get hired or you will lose the job. If you are doing same thing in Georgia (right to work law) so you can refuse to join the union/pay dues and you will not get fired for not join the union.

There are good and bad unions, especially the union at my father's workplace is good and he's happy with union because it does meet anything that he wants. If you getting fired for no reason so the union will try to help you to get a job back or if you have major issues with workplace so the union can help to resolve the dispute. Without union, you will have little or no job security, however the public employees are very hard to get fired, no matter if it is union or nonunion, so only termination will occur if you break any laws (charge as criminal).

 

[Reba]

Update:

New jobs and new investment from General Motors Co. are expected in Lansing once the Detroit automaker moves the iconic Chevrolet Camaro to a local assembly line.

The carmaker’s plans to build the next incarnation of the popular muscle car at its Lansing Grand River assembly plant, alongside the Cadillac CTS and ATS cars, are still vague. To bring it here, GM will transfer production of the Camaro from its plant in Oshawa, Ontario — a loss union leaders there consider devastating.

But GM is keeping quiet about the number of new jobs expected here, the amount of money it might pour into the Lansing factory over the next several years and when the roughly 1,500 hourly employees at the Grand River plant can expect to see the additional work. The automaker won’t even disclose the model year of the revamped Camaro, which debuted in 2009.

Yet union leaders, analysts, auto dealers and Lansing’s mayor all say landing the Camaro is a major success for the region’s auto industry.

“That’s job security for us,” said Mike Green, president of United Auto Workers Local 652, which represents hourly workers at the Lansing Grand River plant. “If you look at it, (there are) generations here of building cars. That’s what we do. You go back through the 88s, the 98s, the Cutlasses, the Grand Ams — we’ve built it all here.

“Now the American muscle car coming back — very exciting.”

Exciting for Lansing as a whole, too.

“It strengthens the ability of our economic team to go out and continue to market Lansing as this automotive center,” Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero said. “We have never shrunk from or run from our reputation and our heritage.”

GM officials would not comment beyond a statement saying the production move is needed because of lower capital investment and efficiencies. The ATS and CTS, like the Camaro, are rear-wheel-drive vehicles.

Erin Davis, a Lansing-based GM spokeswoman, said the carmaker expects to save money because the Grand River plant is tooled for rear-wheel-drive vehicles, while the Camaro is the Oshawa plant’s only such model....

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/...312190045/GM-moving-production-Camaro-Lansing