T110's Northern Migration

xtc4, on Aug 16 2017 - 19:09, said:   I assumed that we were talking about private employers. Again, it is pretty easy for a private employer to fire anyone for anything. Employment-discrimination statutes do protect private employees, but they are limited.   But your point seems to have much validity if we are talking about a public employee. A public employee not only has statutory protections, but also constitutional protections. (Constitutions, in general, protect against state action, not private action.) So a government employee who is fired for political activity or speech may have a substantial First Amendment claim.   Edit: I looked up that case. It did involve a unionized worker, his statutorily-protected right to picket in conjunction with a labor dispute, and his right under the union contract to be fired only for "just cause." That worker was in a totally different situation than the typical at-will employee. By the way, I do agree, philosophically, with the position that all employees should have just-cause protections and that private employees as well as public employees should have free speech and assembly rights. Unfortunately, that is not the country we live in.