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Is There Anything A Union Worker CAN Be FIred For Doing?
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The National Labor Relations Board is siding with an employee who was fired for criticizing her supervisor on Facebook. The NLRB considers Facebook the same as workers talking to each other at the water cooler about working conditions. But is it? Doesn't it become public the second someone other than a co-worker is exposed to the status update? You mean a company can't fire a worker for posting personal attacks on her supervisor online? Take a look: She was so upset that her supervisor wouldn't let the union compose her response to a customer complaint about her that she cursed him out and called him a psychiatric patient on Facebook. The NLRB says that it was like talking to her co-workers on the job. But if there was one non-co-worker among her friends, isn't that different? And is defamation protected? (New York Times)
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