right to work

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Right to work and Right-to-work law

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt tə wɜːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt tə wɝk/

right to work (plural rights to work)

1. (public policy, law, ethics) The human right (the right of an individual) to have gainful employment.
   • 1948, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 23.1), United Nations

     Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

2. (US, public policy, law) The prohibition of union security agreements or closed shops; the prohibition of the requirement that those who take on work in a unionised shop join the union or pay it for representing them.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right,‎ work.

• Rand formula
• right to strike