Meaning of right to work | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The human right (the right of an individual) to have gainful employment.
2. 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.
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3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right, work.

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Examples

“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.”

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