Wrong.
First of all, it is CA or NY law that applied to ABC firing Roseanne, and I also quoted NY, CA, MI, and federal law, as well as NLRB regulations, all clearly stating that employer suppression of freedom of political expression outside of work is strictly illegal!
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The National Labor Relations Act, which does cover private employers, may not apply directly to political speech per se in the private workplace. However, it does give non-supervisory employees a limited right to engage in free speech and other protected concerted activities for their “mutual aid and protection.”
For example, under this federal labor law, employees may wear union buttons or insignia in the workplace, absent special circumstances. They may engage in solicitations for political causes on their employer’s property so long as neither the employee doing the solicitation and the employee being solicited are not engaging in such activities during working time.
Similarly, employees may engage in distribution of political materials on the employer’s property so long as the distribution does not occur in working areas. Moreover, employers who allow candidates to come on to their property and campaign, may undermine their rights to maintain and enforce otherwise lawful limits on employee solicitation or distribution.
Court rulings and opinions of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) also make it clear that employees can engage in political campaign activities that may be contrary to the interests or positions of their employer. For example, discharging employees for campaigning against immigration reform or for repeal of a state’s right to work law would be unlawful.
The NLRB has also recently been very active in applying the right of employees to engage in protected concerted activities for their mutual aid and protection to social media such as Facebook and Twitter — even when the employees are not working. The NLRB has published three extensive reports in the past year expounding on these rights. Thus, employers should be careful to appreciate and not violate rights of employees who exercise their emerging rights to use such forms of social media.
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https://www.tlnt.com/political-speec...loyers-beware/
For those who incorrectly believe ABC has some sort of rights from a supposed morals clause, such clauses are barred from infringing on political expression, by law.
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But two sections of the California Labor Code (sections 1101 and 1102) specify that private employers may not do any of the following:
Make, adopt or enforce any rule or policy forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or running for public office;
Make, adopt or enforce any rule or policy that tends to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees;5 or
Use the threat of job loss to coerce, influence or attempt to coerce or influence employees to take or refrain from taking any particular course of political activity.6
It follows from these laws against employer political suppression or coercion that employers may not fire or retaliate against employees for their political activity or beliefs.
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https://www.shouselaw.com/employment...taliation.html
Face it, even during the darkest hours of McCarthyism in the 1950s, no network was stupid enough to admit they were illegally backballing people over their political beliefs.
That is because it not only has ALWAYS been completely illegal, but is the single most protected right of all in this country.
Everyone should be willing to die and kill over such an important right.
It is amazing anyone would be so racist as to not want to defend Roseanne from this abuse.
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