Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blockades of Amazon sites

Re:Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blocka... by benj111 on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:34AM (#19076196)

If I go around campaigning to introduce a carbon tax, reduce plastic use, some other initiative. Does my employer have some right to sack me because it might tangentially hit their bottom line?

Am I duty bound to vote for, and encourage others to vote for, any party that would lower corporate taxes?

Do I have to (in this example) do all my shopping through Amazon, or am I also allowed to shop at competitors?

So yes, I think you can get more nuanced

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Re:Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blocka... by huhtenberg on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:04AM (#19076410)

> it might tangentially hit their bottom line

Take your strawman back.

I didn't say "tangentially", I said "explicitly". Anything that is aimed directly at the company itself. Like suggesting to nail the office door shut to prevent any work from being done.

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Re:Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blocka... by benj111 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:38AM (#19076640)

How is it a straw man?

You wrote "to explicitly hurt your company". I'm not sure the word explicitly actually changes the meaning here. I could campaign to introduce a carbon tax. I'm not doing it to explicitly hurt my oil company employer. Even if I know it probably will at some level.

There's degrees of 'explicitness'. What about campaigning against fossil fuels if you work for an oil company? What about a car company? Theres a line, and I'm willing to bet it will differ from employee to employer.

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