The first amendment has never protected people from losing their jobs. If I go in one day and call my boss an incompetent, micromanaging asshole, I’ll get fired. I can’t just yell first amendment and keep my job.
Now if you call your representative and tell them they’re an incompetent, cowardly, fascist piece of shit, and then you get arrested, well now that would be a first amendment issue.
Unfortunately, most places in the US are at will employment, so it doesn’t really matter what was said, if an employer wants you gone, even if it’s due to outside pressures, they just have to say the word.
So, 1st ammendment is being suspended?
The first amendment has never protected people from losing their jobs. If I go in one day and call my boss an incompetent, micromanaging asshole, I’ll get fired. I can’t just yell first amendment and keep my job.
Now if you call your representative and tell them they’re an incompetent, cowardly, fascist piece of shit, and then you get arrested, well now that would be a first amendment issue.
unless they’re being fired because the president wants it that way
Unfortunately, most places in the US are at will employment, so it doesn’t really matter what was said, if an employer wants you gone, even if it’s due to outside pressures, they just have to say the word.
^ this - don’t sign at will contracts - push back (easier said when self employed)
Are teachers not government employees in America?
It depends on the institution.
Not at private institutions.
1st admendment has been fucked since the PATRIOT act