The unions and government regulations protect some of them, the very thing they claim to hate.
More than 90 people have been arrested since Wednesday when loyalists to outgoing President Donald Trump disrupted lawmakers as they met to confirm the Electoral College results and President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. People on social media have been trying to identify rioters photographed or filmed at the Capitol Wednesday, pressuring companies that employ them to fire them.
Most private employers can fire workers for attending protests, since First Amendment rights only prohibit people from being punished by the government for their speech, not by a private employer, said Susan Kline, an Indianapolis-based labor and employment attorney at law firm Faegre Drinker.
There are some exceptions: Those who work for the government may be more legally protected, and so too are many unionized workers, who typically have a contract listing the reasons for which they could be fired. And some states may have laws that protect workers' free speech.
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Rioters who stormed US Capitol now face backlash at work
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Those are regulations that the labour movement had to fight for.
Another disadvantage of being a wage slave.
Otoh, the Biblical norm for citizens is roughly equal asset ownership:
1) Explicitly in the case of agricultural land (with provisions in the Law to keep it that way, c.f. Leviticus 25).
2) Implicitly in the case of other assets since usury is forbidden from fellow citizens and debt forgiveness commanded every 7 years. This greatly reduces wealth inequality, rent slavery, etc.
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