Firing in Miami

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Mar 5 23:10:11 PST 2001


On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, hep wrote:


> Michael Lopez-Calderon, until last week, taught at a Jewish school in
> Miami. But after the school received, anonymously, reports that he
> had made "pro-Palestine" comments on an email list to which he was
> subscribed, he was fired.

This has to be illegal, doesn't it? If explicitly firing someone for something they said outside their job -- way outside, such that it has to be ferretted out -- isn't a violation of the first amendment, what is? Especially when the speech is political.

Michael

__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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