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In reply to the discussion: So let me get this straight, an employer can FORCE you to be subjected to the National [View all]Eliot Rosewater
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That is the crux.
What I dont like is an employer can demand you sing a patriotic song and fire you if you dont when the song has zip to do with your job, or PREVENT you from singing the same song.
But, as you have all explained, any employer can do any horrible thing they want in this country as long as it isnt legal discrimination of the main reasons like race, gender, national origin, disability, religion, genetic information, or age (if the person is at least 40 years old).
All the more reason every single American should have the ability to join a union at the job. Now this will never happen, of course, but that is how it should be.
I will go one further, I would love to see federal laws that apply to ALL employers that provide far more protection that what now exists. But we will go in the opposite direction of that and soon. First I suspect OSHA will be gone, and if not stopped (changing subjects) all consumer protection gone too, like nutritional labeling, cars that have to meet certain safety standards, etc.
Everything that costs corp America money that they dont want to do, gone.
Hell if it were up to me our tax structure would be that there are NO billionaires, at all.