[thehardsphere]

California, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington do not have right-to-work laws, yet software salaries in SF, Boston, New York, and Seattle are among the highest in the world. If that were the cause, Austin, TX should become the high-pay Mecca that every programmer would migrate to, because Texas is a right-to-work state.

[vonmoltke]

GP is confusing "at will" with "right to work". All states, except Montana I believe, are at will, meaning employees can be let go without cause. Right to workis much less common, and prohibits things like closed shops where an employee is required to join a specific union as a condition of employment.

[thehardsphere]

That would make more sense.

[ThrustVectoring]

Yeah, I meant the laws that say that your boss can just show up and fire you for any or no reason, which is at-will employment. Got the name wrong, embarrassingly.

[djrogers]

You're supporting the GP's thesis - he's saying that right-to-work laws depress wages...

[thehardsphere]

GP's thesis is that Europe has no right-to-work laws, but America does, so America has higher wages than Europe.