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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8264025" data-attributes="member: 177">Yeah, well, people get sloppy.  In the broader world, "Right to work" is a more positive thing about human rights.  Folks have a right to make a living, basically.  Unfortunately in the US, the term got co-opted in the power struggles between employers and unions.  Further than that, and the discussion probably gets political, and union history isn't what the thread's about.While in current practice, it comes out a lot like "right to fire", in historical context we should not underestimate the ability of a wealthy employer to find a way to bludgeon employees if allowed to do so.  If you do not establish that a worker does actually have a right to leave a job, then employees who try to go to, say, a competitor, could be legally harassed.</blockquote>