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How are you defining "right to work" in this context? I thought that had to do with not requiring employees to join a labor union?



When talking about employment law, "the right to work states" is often used as a generic category used to refer to states with weak employee protections, since the right to work states generally are also red states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Right_to_Work_states.svg


Can you find an example of where "right to work" is used as a generic category instead of its actual meaning:

"Right-to-work laws are statutes in a reported 26 states in the United States that are an effort to give employees the right to work without being required or compelled to join to a union."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law


It does. I'm talking about the fact that the fictional employee we're talking about is most likely non-union in a right to work state, thereby making it easier to fire them (without union intervention).




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