BLM Masks At Whole Foods

[Shadow Wolf]

There is no “right to work” in most states in the US, there is no “freedom of speech” in the workplace. Keep your political, religious and philosophical statements out of the workplace.

Freedom Of Speech In The Workplace: The First Amendment Revisited - FindLaw

Right to work is just bad wording for bills that don't actually cement a right to work. That would have been FDR's second Bill of Rights. But as the are, "right to work" doesn't have crap to do with obtaining gainful employment.

 

[Revoltingest]

"Freedom of speech", "freedom of religion"...

Tis hard to argue with things lacking verbs.

 

[anna.]

How? We just established that it's a privilege granted at the employer's whim, not a right employees have.

Yes.

Their employer's actions cannot grant or remove rights, because that is not a power employers have - not even in Western capitalism. Either every employee has the right to political expression at every workplace, or nobody has that right.

You're jumping canoes midstream. We've established that wearing political messages is a privilege not a right, so an employer may grant privilege or not grant privilege at their discretion. Employees at some companies may have that privilege while employees at other companies may not have that privilege.

 

[Kooky]

You're jumping canoes midstream. We've established that wearing political messages is a privilege not a right, so an employer may grant privilege or not grant privilege at their discretion. Employees at some companies may have that privilege while employees at other companies may not have that privilege.

Not only that, but the employer can grant that privilege arbitrarily based on their own political preference, because as we established, political expression at the workplace is not a right. So employees can't legally demand equal rights to political expression, because they have no such rights. i.e. any such lawsuit would be spurious and bound to fail.

 

[anna.]

Not only that, but the employer can grant that privilege arbitrarily based on their own political preference, because as we established, political expression at the workplace is not a right. So employees can't legally demand equal rights to political expression, because they have no such rights. i.e. any such lawsuit would be spurious and bound to fail.

Pretty much. But they can try, which would be a legal headache the employer would rather avoid. Which is why I'm all for employers disallowing employees from wearing political messages. Seems like we're just going around in circles here?