Labor Board Claims People Should Not Be Fired Over Facebook Status

Nov 9, 2010 | 4 Comments

In what will undoubtedly be a ground-breaking case, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page. This is the first time the board has stepped into a case such as this. They are emphatically claiming that an employee should not [...]

Do Bloggers Need a Union?

Jun 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

Eoghan Brophy wonders: I was talking to my dad abut blogs and unions on the way home from the airport. He’d been at a journalism union conference. I was wondering what you thought bloggers should have to do with unions. If anyone tried to make a cent out of anything you’d made, I’m sure you’d [...]