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- From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Kodak's Official Policy (formerly: Want to adopt)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:39:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.203827.24969@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan25.130932.10745@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan25.214821.29561@Happy-Man.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.214821.29561@Happy-Man.com> Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com writes:
- >As a shareholder in Kodak, and hence (part of) the ultimate
- >authority and employer at the company, I thought I should share my
- >perspective on this.
- >
- >1. Kodak should immediately fire any employee who criticizes it in
- >public, except that the reporting of a crime or suspected crime to
- >a law enforcement agency shall not constitute public criticism.
-
- Wanna join the Happy Fascists League of America? Sheesh, man, one
- does not give up one's civil rights by virtue of employment. If anyone
- who works for Kodak, from the chairwoman of the board down to the
- janitor at the truck dock, wants to stand up on a soapbox and proclaim
- that "Kodak sucks rocks", then have every right to do so -- and Kodak
- has no recourse. (Assuming, of course, that the person on the soapbox
- isn't engaging in slander -- but then again, that applies to everyone,
- whether or not they work for Kodak.)
-
- What Kodak employees say on their own time and with their own resources is
- not the concern of Kodak -- they may not like it, in fact, they may really
- hate it -- but they can't touch it. If any Kodak employee is disciplined
- in any way for exercising their 1st-Amendment rights, I would strongly
- recommend that they contact the ACLU.
-
- If anyone in Kodak's management is so brain-dead as to think they
- can restrict their employee's speech, then they deserve to be
- dragged through a protracted, nasty, bad-publicity-generating
- lawsuit that ends with a huge punitive fine. One hopes that
- the folks running the company have more sense -- and more awareness
- of their employee's rights -- than that.
-
- ---Rsk
-