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What You Should Know About "Right To Work" Laws, 2013 Update, Bureau Of Labor Education. University Of Maine
What You Should Know About "Right To Work" Laws, 2013 Update, Bureau Of Labor Education. University Of Maine
Bureau of Labor Education
This is a brief 2013 update to the Bureau of Labor Education’s (BLE) 2011 briefing paper, “The Truth about ‘Right to Work’ Laws.” As documented in the 2011 BLE paper, the term “right-to-work” is highly misleading, and many studies have shown that RTW laws are not helpful to the well-being of working people. “Right-to-work” does not protect against unfair firing, or promote equitable wages and decent working conditions. By undermining unions and the ability of labor and management to bargain freely, right-to-work laws weaken the ability of workers to protect their rights through a union contract. There are two major …