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> If you grab a megaphone and start disrupting a whole factory floor by using it to try to get people to organize for better rights while you're supposed to be
by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
> If you grab a megaphone and start disrupting a whole factory floor by using it to try to get people to organize for better rights while you're supposed to be working, that seems like it ought to be a fireable offense, where organizing at someone's house outside of working hours clearly should not.
Can you organize on company time? It depends - can you discuss literally anything other than work while at work? Then yes. If not, then you'd have to organize off the clock but not necessarily off-site. There are exceptions for reasonability sake (a nurse can't interrupt an organ transplant to organize, for instance) but sending company-wide emails strikes me as sufficiently non-disruptive as to be protected.
- kova12 4y agoIf I was working at the place where my colleagues were trying to actively undermine CEO by character assassination, that would be disruptive for me. Those folks as my experience at workplace shows could be quite bullies. Working by their side would absolutely be disruptive.
- kieselguhr_kid 4y agoThat's not how anything works. Your sensibilities being offended is not the same as materially disrupting the operations of the business.
- kova12 4y agowhen I work on something important and someone approaches me with her left-wing political activism, operations will most certainly be disrupted. I work in tech, and I know firsthand what sort of bullying is being preceded by such people approaching you. It is absolutely material
- zozbot234 4y ago> That's not how anything works. Your sensibilities being offended is not the same as materially disrupting the operations of the business. The NLRB disagrees with you. Look up the James Damore case.
- throwoutway 4y agoI agree, though the problem for me is that it was public not private. By blasting it publicly they violated their NDAs too (I presume)