From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!trc
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: No economic coercion
Article-I.D.: houti.254
Posted: Tue Apr 19 08:21:51 1983
Received: Wed Apr 20 02:30:28 1983

Response to Guy Harris

First, how could the employer know how you voted?  The closest he could
come is to fire anyone belonging to the opposing party.

In order to determine if a threat made is coercion, one has to look at
the results of the threat being carried out.  Immediately after the
person is fired, will he be in extreme pain, lose his life or owned property,
or otherwise have rights violated?   A job is not a right, it is a contract
between employer and employee, with certain allowable ways of breaking it.
If one of these ways is used, it is just.  If the contract is violated,
the employee has legal rights that can be enforced.


	Tom Craver
	houti!trc