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Warpy

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4. It's bad for the worker because it's a tool to prevent unionization
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 10:12 PM
Sep 2013

having only part of a shop belonging to a union removes a lot of the leverage that union has to bargain for better working conditions or pay.

States with those laws typically have worse working conditions, markedly lower pay, more worker injury on the job, and generally an anti labor climate. Workers can be fired for any flimsy reason at all and even a union that covers a large majority of the other workers is not in a position to contest it.

People call those laws "right to starve" laws because that is the effect they have on the workforce.

I've belonged to good unions and bad unions and a bad union is much better than no union. You can take that to the bank. Literally.

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