It's time to start firing and suspending employees who support black lives matter.
It's their right as employers
It's their right as employers
Mariners suspend catcher for remainder of season without pay after tweets on Black Lives Matter.
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This will only happen if fans start protesting teams who support BLM antics and advertisers react by pulling commercials which provide sports teams with revenue
So then the NFL can punish Kaepernick.
Why are these assholes, including you Ricter, claiming Kapernick cannot be punished by the NFL because of free speech?
From my perspective a major league sports league and its teams are an entertainment franchise. The athletes are nothing more than entertainers.
When you are selling "entertainment" you don't want to insult any portion of your fan base. You know... those people who buys tickets and merchandise who pay the bills for the team. As an owner you don't want your brand muddled in politics due to actions of your employees.
If I owned a major league franchise or was a commissioner, I would fine and suspend any athlete who made any political statement without approval of the team and league.
In most workplaces you would be fired if you made public or political statements without management support in any role where you effectively represented the organization (e.g. not standing for the national anthem, outside the company on news camera, etc.)
When you are selling "entertainment" you don't want to insult any portion of your fan base. You know... those people who buys tickets and merchandise who pay the bills for the team. As an owner you don't want your brand muddled in politics due to actions of your employees.
If I owned a major league franchise or was a commissioner, I would fine and suspend any athlete who made any political statement without approval of the team and league.
In most workplaces you would be fired if you made public or political statements without management support in any role where you effectively represented the organization (e.g. not standing for the national anthem, outside the company on news camera, etc.)
True enough but they do not have unlimited rights to suspend a player. In this case there is a factual issue of whether his tweets constituted "detrimental" conduct. In an ambiguous situation like this, I believe most labor attorneys would have advised the team to have a clear policy on such matters and to make a record of having warned the player that his conduct was non-conforming.
Since the team apparently did neither, I have a strong suspicion they just wanted to ditch his salary and counted on the ultra-liberal Seattle media to back them.
There is a big difference in an at-will employee and one with a guaranteed contract. You cannot just terminate someone's contract because they did something that annoyed you. You have to have adequate legal grounds. Typically the contract would require adherence to corporate policies. This policies might require political statements to be pre-approved by management or they might have a blanket prohibition on statements that were detrimental to the employer. Then it becomes a factual issue of whether or not the statement violated the policy. To suspend someone with zero warning for an ambiguous tweet seems very shaky to me.
I think NFL teams are well within their rights to require players to stand respectfully during the National Anthem. They certainly could order players who would not agree to stand to go to the locker room until the Anthem ceremony was over. No player has the right to demand to be allowed to make a spectacle of themselves on the team's dime.
Please, lets not pretend that cowardly employers are not persuaded into bending towards the prevailing political winds. Happens all the time. These gutless bastards will lean whichever way the powers that be want them to bend. If the current climate was shoot all the negros and we'll be better off, theses very same people would have given the guy a pay raise.
If I came out opposed to abortion on a Twitter and my team owners disagreed with me and Canned me, would that be fair play in the Lib handbook?
Players are lauded for making political statements that are sympathetic to left wing cauSes
Players are suspended for making political statements that are sympathetic to right wing causes.
It's that simple.
Players are suspended for making political statements that are sympathetic to right wing causes.
It's that simple.