right to work

Noun

Meaning

(public policy, law, ethics) The human right (the right of an individual) to have gainful employment.

(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.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right,‎ work.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. Rene Cassin

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend. Margaret Thatcher

Nobody goes right to work. You might get there on time, but, screw the company, those first twenty minute belong to you, right? It's not an attitude in line with the American Spirit, but there it is: we all screw around first. "I just got here, man, you kiddin' me?" George Carlin

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work. Cathy Guisewite

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work. Gregor Strasser

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice? Ismail Haniyeh

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