Since RTW was voted in many workers would blame the RTW law for every thing the company does that they don’t like. They claim that our RTW law included all kinds of oppressive powers for businesses that they didn’t have before.
I thought I understood that RTW here simply made joining a union optional. I strongly support this, and when union supporters whine about it undermining union’s effectiveness and membership I support it even more.
I study up on these subjects so I can discuss them accurately most of the time, but I couldn’t find details about this.
Could someone tell me if our RTW law here in Oklahoma did change any other workplace rules, or just basically made the membership optional. Or tell me where to browse to find out. Lots of sites tell you about Right-to-work, but I want to find out about Oklahoma’s law specifically.
Thanks.
Is there anything that prevents them from moving to a different employer? I mean, if you don't like it, move on. Too many folks in this country seem to forget who the job belongs to, i.e., the employer, not the employee......
It just made union membership optional. No laws were changed to give employer's more control over workers. The Right-to-Work movement took about twenty years to get passed, and I still remember going to the Oklahoma State Fair and seeing the unions give out yardsticks and plastic bags stating how RTW would crush worker's benefits.
When the GM (General Motors) plant in Oklahoma City finally shut down for good, public sympathy was minimal. It used to be that people were concerned about the GM worker's annual temporary layoffs, but the vile stuff spouted by the unions over the years and awareness about the incredibly generous benefits the GM workers had been receiving shut the sympathy down quick this time. It was understood that the UAW had made plant unprofitable to operate. (That and the fact that the unions had made GM cars too expensive to sell well.)
We live in a free country. If employees feel they are being abused by their employers, they are free to look for better opportunities. Finding another job is not easy, but life can be hard sometimes. Real men and women rise to the challenge.
(Side note: I was in the Teamsters for awhile. Everybody got semi-annual raises, regardless of whether they were good or crappy at their jobs. The union reps would come by practically begging someone to say something bad about their managers so the reps would have something to do. We were treated fine, and had no complaints. Reps would get pissed.)