ummmm........lawsuit?
 

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturd.../sticker.shtml

Cliff notes:

1. Woman has John Kerry sticker on her car

2. Woman's boss sees John Kerry sticker

3. Boss tells woman to remove sticker from HER car

4. Woman refuses

5. Woman is fired from her job

Something about the First Amendment comes to mind there...

bush supporters just a couple notches below suicide bombers. :2 cents:

Shit! What was her boss thinking? He can't be too bright.

oh i hope she sues them for all they're fucking worth.

She was hired by Kerry today to work on his campaign.

Yes. What happened is considered a civil rights violations: both free speech and voter's rights. The owner is crazy because the burden of proof in Federal court for this type of thing is very low.

I would of fired her 2 :2 cents:

people that vote for bush usually aren't.

This is the same kind of person who probably stomps around declaring America the land of the free. Meanwhile, he just fired a woman for her political beliefs.

Yay for hypocrisy!

wow that crazy!! Well fuck her boss. Hes an ass anyways especially if hes voting for bush http://www.top10adult.info/images/BUSH/b11.jpg

Was that her private car or a company's car? :helpme

Her car

I do agree!:thumbsup

Read the article. It say's "her" car in several places....


"Gobbell of Moulton didn't pay a cent for the sticker that she proudly displays on the rear windshield of her Chevrolet Lumina"


It also says she worked a bagging machine in a factory. Since when do factories issue company cars to their employees?

It was her own car.

A boss has certain rights when his employee is representing his company in an official capacity. If she were wearing a t-shirt at work that was pro-Kerry maybe he'd have a leg to stand on in telling her to stop wearing it to work or be fired. But her car?

He could have told her to park her car off company property I suppose, but I don't see how sporting a Kerry sticker would impact negatively on anyone's business in the first place.

Good times :1orglaugh

Wow.

This is a damn good reason to vote Libertarian http://www.lp.org this election. Democrats and Republicans have both gone nuts :(

She should of never been hired!! To fat and ugly. where was his mind? Couldn't mindless twenty yearold to work for minimum wage?

Her car, his lot. At a factory I don't see the sense in getting fucking upset over a bumper sticker. A more public establishment may want a rule that preculdes making politcal statemenst on company properity. About any statement you make on the subject is gonna piss someone off so why lose business.

Your right :thumbsup If the press gave them more attention, maybe they could be more of a challenge to the bullshit numb nuts we have now.

Free speech has NOTHING to do with your boss deciding if they want to fire you or not....unless your boss is the government :)

In a right to hire state, you can be fired for ANY reason except those protected by law (race, age, disability, etc.). Period.

Was it a stupid overreaction on his part? Yes. Did he have every legal right to fire her? Yes.

Wrong Peaches. This is a civil rights violation. You can't be terminated for your political beliefs.

Where is that law? It's not in GA . In GA you can be fired for this.

well, he is voting for Bush - that should tell you something

Interesting that the boss had included a political flier supporting bush in with their paychecks, then fires her for her support of kerry.

Oh well.

:(

What a fucking tool

LOL...that's very true...=)

She was a factory worker, probably unionized. If it's a decent union and they have good language in their collective agreement, well, any collective agreement worth it's salt should/would have wording in it regarding unfair management practise.

Hard to see the legitimacy of how a boss can tell an employee what they can or dan't put in or on their own car. Like I said earlier, he probably just should have told her she can no longer park her car on his lot, but even in that it could blow up into a big mess.

She works for him, he doesn't own her like a slave. :1orglaugh

No but he can fire her for whatever reason he wants as long as it's not protected by the laws of Alabama because there are certainly no Federal laws against firing someone for their political beliefs.

In GA, you can fire someone if you don't like the way they cut their hair. :)

Unlike the north the south isn't real big on unions. I'm betting that if there's a union involved, we would have heard about it by now. Or it realizes he had every right to fire her :thumbsup

I hope she sues the bastard and wins..

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e and following)
Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating against applicants and employees on the basis of race or color, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth and national origin (including membership in a Native American tribe). It also prohibits employers from retaliating against an applicant or employee who asserts his or her rights under the law.

Her right to political speech was infringed.

Read up on some constitutional case law.:thumbsup

I have. I owned you. Live with it. :)

The only time dimissal has been upheld by the Federal courts is when "an employee's political activism compromised [the business'] credibility... dismissal was necessary to defend its reputation for impartiality." This has only applied to newspapers so far.

The fact the business handed out pro-Bush pamphlets shows the company had a defined politcal leaning. Ergo, the dismissal was a violation of the woman's right to free speech.

She should have just taken off the fucking sticker. :2 cents:

Depending on the employment laws in her State, I'd say her boss knew what he was doing before he shit canned her. In Florida, my boss can come up to me and say, "I don't like what color your car is and you dress funny. You're fired." and I couldn't do shit about it.

But there is a big difference in what you are saying and what happened to her.

You live and work in a right to work state, and yes, they can fire you for parting your hair the wrong way. But they can not fire you for your political beliefes.

I'm sure they're scurrying to dig up some shit on her as we speak.

Well things are certainly looking more and more medieval..

Exactly. :thumbsup

Here is her boss's email addy

[email protected]

Have fun with it :)