Honest Conversations at Work

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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

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm