Reply #248: A "right to work state" means you have a right to employment

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It means that a Union can't stop you from working in a particular industry.. it has nothing to do with "rights" as in protection from being fired or anything like that. Right to Work just means that if I want to go an work as line man for a power utility the union can't stop me from being hired or prevent me from working or force me to pay union dues. Unlike in California, for example, if I wanted to join a film company as a director, the union would stop me from being hired, because the film industry unions have complete control over who gets jobs on a production and who doesn't. That is what right to work means.