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0 pointsgamblor9567y ago0 comments

It's perfectly legal for a business to fire union employees. The US is an at-will country, and businesses are entitled to terminate employees for financial reasons.

Even public sector unions can't prevent terminations for financial reasons, though they negotiated no-fire clauses into their union contracts decades ago.

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eqdw7y ago· 1 in thread

Not true. At-will is state by state. And, of course, there is nothing stopping either you or your employer from negotiating different terms.

gamblor956OP7y ago

You're right.

Montana isn't at-will after 6-months of full-time employment and follows the French system.

The other 49 states are at-will employment, with generally the same rules with limited restrictions.

I stand by my original comment. Even Montana has at-will employment for the first 6 months.

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