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Fired for Wearing the Wrong Color Shirt: The Scary Truth About Our Lack of Workplace Protections

Jake Blumgart, AlterNet. April 3, 2012.

Most American workers labor under the auspices of employment-at-will, which allows employers to hire, fire and promote for good reasons, bad reasons, or no reason at all.

Should Joining a Union Be a Civil Right?

Jake Blumgart, AlterNet. March 9, 2012.

A new book, "Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right," shows how workers can press for real penalties against bosses who fire them for trying to unionize.

The Ninth Man Out: A Fired U.S. Attorney Tells His Story

Murray Waas, Huffington Post. June 7, 2007.

When a Kansas City pharmacist was convicted of diluting drugs for cancer patients, former U.S. Attorney Tom Graves thought the victims and their families should be compensated. The FBI thought otherwise.

MSNBC Finally Fires Pat Buchanan, White Supremacist

Staff, December 31, 1969.


Outrageous: Catholic School Fires Teacher, Five Months Pregnant, for Choosing Artificial Insemination

Kristen Gwynne, December 31, 1969.


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