Worker Rights Extend to Facebook, Labor Board Says - NYTimes.com

Worker Rights Extend to Facebook, Labor Board Says - NYTimes.com: "Company Accused of Firing Over Facebook Post
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: November 8, 2010
In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page. This is the first case in which the labor board has stepped in to argue that workers’ criticisms of their bosses or companies on a social networking site are generally a protected activity and that employers would be violating the law by punishing workers for such statements."

This is going to be big, not just from a worker/social media context but in a labor relations context as well. I'm watching this. We all should be.

Post-Midterms

Republicans meet your new boss. Scarier than the old boss.

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This is going to be great political theater and it's culmination will be the Republican National Convention. Bad news if you're one of those rarest of birds, i.e., a Republican and a moderate. Either way, you lose.