WoO drivers need a good lawyer to challenge their "right to work". Be interesting to see if they could negotiate a change in the WoO system. I'm no legal expert, but the future will be interesting.
A right-to-work law is legislation that restricts the ability of employers to impose their own rules on their workers. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that employers cannot compel employees to join a union. As a result, employees can choose whether or not to become members. Once members have joined a union, they can choose to resign.
Originally Posted by Grocery Guy:
WoO drivers need a good lawyer to challenge their "right to work". Be interesting to see if they could negotiate a change in the WoO system. I'm no legal expert, but the future will be interesting.
A right-to-work law is legislation that restricts the ability of employers to impose their own rules on their workers. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that employers cannot compel employees to join a union. As a result, employees can choose whether or not to become members. Once members have joined a union, they can choose to resign.
Good luck, why don't you take the case and see how far you get? The WoO is not an employer by the way, and the drivers and teams are independent contractors. It's no different across any sanctioning body.
There is no "forced union". WRG has agreements/contracts with certain drivers who committed full-time to the series. They didn't have to. There is no requirement to sign the contract to race with the Outlaws, though I'm sure there is a financial reward for doing so. That's not much different than any other contract any other athlete might sign. NFL contracts could certainly bar a football player from playing in a rival league.
These drivers had a choice-sign the contract or don't. Once you sign a contract, the expectation is that you live up to the deal.
We’ve probably been over this before but I believe this will be resolved in a reasonable manner. I would say at this point the Outlaws stand to loose their about to become 4 time champion and perhaps their most exciting driver in Sheldon. Those are 2 pretty big holes to fill. I don’t see it hurting their brand with 12 non conflictive races a year
The WoO teams make more money in point, bonus and tow money than most teams do in purse money. As was stated above, you don’t have to sign this agreement to race a WoO race, but if the series and indirectly the race promoters are paying for exclusivity, then that’s what is expected.
I hope there is some middle ground as High Limit is paying some good money and the WoO don’t want to lose good cars. Maybe they could do a limited number of exemptions per year to allow the teams to race the $50k to win shows and a few others.
