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It's open season on everyone in virtually every American workplace. Why won't you acknowledge this? Oh, but I do acknowledge this. I would like to call attenti

It's open season on everyone in virtually every American workplace. Why won't you acknowledge this? Oh, but I do acknowledge this. I would like to call attention to it. I thank you for your support. What's happening here isn't a shift. In the old days, one could cite such studies. The reactions and the consequences are indeed a shift in society. An outrageously authoritarian shift. What you're demanding is a new special protection for "people who can defend their position scientifically". Funny, but the NLRB was once a new special protection. The witch-hunts back then had took a different direction. I would grant that your interpretation of what's been discussed and apparently needed as a special protection. It does seem to me that our current society apparently needs special protection for things that used to be ok and which are still vital to the workings of our democratic society. Things like: Peacefully donating to political PACs. Peacefully having a mainstream political opinion. (Like being a Republican or a Libertarian) Civilly stating an opinion. Peacefully gathering to express political views. At-will employment is now being used as a political tool against the category of people who are "Classical Liberals" and everyone to the right of that. It is different yet very similar in many regards to at-will employment being used against labor organizers in decades past.

tptacek 9y ago
You understand that, in much of the country, you can be fired simply for being a Democrat or a Republican, right? The law recognizes the rights of the owners and managers of companies to organize them out of like-minded people. If that's problematic for you, you should lobby for employment laws to change. It's arguably not the NLRB's place to come up with new protections; they're an agency largely unaccountable to the voters.
- stcredzero 9y ago
  You understand that, in much of the country, you can be fired simply for being a Democrat or a Republican, right? I was once pushed out of a job for being perceived as "too leftist." In retrospect, perhaps I should have claimed harassment. I don't think any but the most ideologically fervent would consider firing someone for simply being a Democrat or a Republican anything but a crappy thing to do. I understand that at-will employment is a beneficial freedom to employers in the same way that free speech and freedom of association are beneficial freedoms to individuals. However, at-will employment was once used to actively discriminate against people on the basis of race, religion, or place of national origin. Society came to recognize that as a problem, and society came around to change "the social compact." The exploitation of ideologues to use at-will employment to implement "thought-crime" is abhorrent, and by your own admission, has come to be a widespread societal phenomenon.

tptacek 9y ago

You understand that, in much of the country, you can be fired simply for being a Democrat or a Republican, right? The law recognizes the rights of the owners and managers of companies to organize them out of like-minded people. If that's problematic for you, you should lobby for employment laws to change. It's arguably not the NLRB's place to come up with new protections; they're an agency largely unaccountable to the voters.

stcredzero 9y ago
You understand that, in much of the country, you can be fired simply for being a Democrat or a Republican, right? I was once pushed out of a job for being perceived as "too leftist." In retrospect, perhaps I should have claimed harassment. I don't think any but the most ideologically fervent would consider firing someone for simply being a Democrat or a Republican anything but a crappy thing to do. I understand that at-will employment is a beneficial freedom to employers in the same way that free speech and freedom of association are beneficial freedoms to individuals. However, at-will employment was once used to actively discriminate against people on the basis of race, religion, or place of national origin. Society came to recognize that as a problem, and society came around to change "the social compact." The exploitation of ideologues to use at-will employment to implement "thought-crime" is abhorrent, and by your own admission, has come to be a widespread societal phenomenon.