Honest Conversations at Work
Some dark thoughts regarding being a worker in the USA.
Because of the labor laws in a majority of states...
Because of how healthcare is structured in the USA...
Because you might be over 30 years old in IT...
Because you might be a woman...
Because you might be a minority...
Because you might be LGBTQ...
Because you might have a mortgage...
Because you might have a student loan debt...
Because you might have debt...
I don't feel like you can have an honest conversation with any boss.
You have too much to lose
"Right to work states", better to call it employment-at-will
https://www.nrtw.org/right-to-work-states/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/right-to-work-states
Employment by state, December 2022
https://www.bls.gov/charts/state-employment-and-unemployment/employment-by-state-bar.htm
Total employment, January 2023
Household Data, Summary Table A
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
41.97% of employees are in an employment-at-will state as of December 2022/January 2023
10.1% of workers are in a union