CONTRAVERSIAL OF
HUMAN RIGHT ON RIGHT TO WORK
Right to work,
According Minnesatta (2002) to law is a state law that stops employers and
employees from negotiating an agreement – also known as a union security clause
– that requires all workers who receive the benefits of a collective bargaining
agreement to pay their share of the costs of representing them. Right to
Work laws say that unions must represent every eligible employee, whether he or
she pays dues or not. In other words, “Right to Work” laws allow workers
to pay nothing and still get all the benefits of union membership.
The right to work the
most controversial and amorphous principle of the regime, has been most
constantly expounded by the United Nations.
The U.N formulation of this right, which won limited ILO endorsement in
1983 and 1984, refers to the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his
living by work which he freely chooses or accepts. The principle of the right
to work that has survived is a lowest common denominator that emphasizes
non-discrimination and freedom of choice. It also substitutes for the goal of
full employment in certain international instruments in which rights
terminology is preferred to the language of economic growth and development.
The principles of
non-discrimination and an equal treatment for women have expanded great since
the initial IGO emphasis on protection against allegedly unsafe working
conditions [a focus now widely viewed as responsible for additional
discrimination] and on largely symbolic affirmations of the justice of equal
pay.
By FAITH GABRIELLA
