RE: Take me out to dinner and a movie
July 30, 2015 at 8:27 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2015 at 8:35 am by Nope.)
The employers in NC can fire a worker for any reason. They don't have to tell the employee why they were fired. For reasons I do not understand, the same people in my state who vote for such stupid laws also complain about them.
Lots of people work extra hours unpaid or let their boss take advantage of them because they have no job security. It actually does not make business sense to have your workers end up hating their job but the southern US doesn't seem to make much sense.
Edited to add:
If you wondered how politicians and corporations got these laws passed, the answer is unions. Unions are viewed very negatively in many areas in the south. The Right to Work laws were supposed to be about giving employees the right to not join a union. What happened was that employers gained the right to fire for any reason other than race, gender etc. Because they don't have to provide a reason for the firing, there is no way to tell if they did fire someone over their race.
An example of the anti union sentiment
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/19...nions-away
Lots of people work extra hours unpaid or let their boss take advantage of them because they have no job security. It actually does not make business sense to have your workers end up hating their job but the southern US doesn't seem to make much sense.
Edited to add:
If you wondered how politicians and corporations got these laws passed, the answer is unions. Unions are viewed very negatively in many areas in the south. The Right to Work laws were supposed to be about giving employees the right to not join a union. What happened was that employers gained the right to fire for any reason other than race, gender etc. Because they don't have to provide a reason for the firing, there is no way to tell if they did fire someone over their race.
An example of the anti union sentiment
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/19...nions-away
Quote:But even if it was 200,000 jobs, that would apparently not be enough for Watson—who ended up abstaining from a vote on the tax incentives—to be willing to risk unions gaining strength in the state. That is a lot of hatred of the idea of workers joining together to bargain for better wages and working conditions. This better-unemployment-than-unions position doesn't make Watson unique among elected Republicans, though. In 2014, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley took a similar position, saying that "We discourage any companies that have unions from wanting to come to South Carolina because we don’t want to take the water."
It really is almost like they think unions might be contagious. Like South Carolina or Tennessee workers in non-union workplaces might look at the union workers at Volkswagen or wherever and think "I want that" and go out and try to make it happen. Which they might! And these Republicans are clear that they would prefer higher unemployment among their constituents than having that possibility.
