Has Georgia’s right-to-work law helped or hurt Atlanta?
Ambriet: Georgia is a fire-at-will state. I’ve worked at places where you work all these overtime hours and [don’t] get paid for them. There’s a lot of money coming into Atlanta, but the working people here do not benefit at all. It’s almost like a pimping mentality here. But I like Atlanta a lot. That’s my downfall. People are friendly. The quality of life is good. But when you get into the whole labor thing, there’s a lot to be done.
Cliff: This being a right-to-work state, it’s great for people who really want to work without unions. When you get unions involved, to make you money or to get you benefits, are they really helping you — or are they just looking for an easy payday and still ripping you off? I feel it’s my performance that secures my job, not a union. People in Atlanta have leverage and flexibility. If they’re not happy, they can pick up and change a job tomorrow.
Buck: My father was a native Atlantan and always preached about how bad unions were, almost to the point that unions were a form of communism. I don’t know how that message has been so successfully engraved into the Southern psyche. It’s odd it’s called a right-to-work state when all you have is the right to be fired without any reason whatsoever at a moment’s notice — yet you are expected to nicely request a two week’s notice [to quit].
Cliff: This being a right-to-work state, it’s great for people who really want to work without unions. When you get unions involved, to make you money or to get you benefits, are they really helping you — or are they just looking for an easy payday and still ripping you off? I feel it’s my performance that secures my job, not a union. People in Atlanta have leverage and flexibility. If they’re not happy, they can pick up and change a job tomorrow.
Buck: My father was a native Atlantan and always preached about how bad unions were, almost to the point that unions were a form of communism. I don’t know how that message has been so successfully engraved into the Southern psyche. It’s odd it’s called a right-to-work state when all you have is the right to be fired without any reason whatsoever at a moment’s notice — yet you are expected to nicely request a two week’s notice [to quit].