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<div class="">There’s a new post on the Web of Language: Court rules, with T-shirts at work, you can't always say what you want.</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In 2011, Southern New England Telephone suspended 183 employees who refused to remove T-shirts that said “Inmate”
on the front and “Prisoner of AT$T” on the back. The National Labor Relations Board sided with the phone workers, but the company appealed the NLRB’s decision in federal court. AT&T defended its one-day mass suspension because the T-shirts “could cause customers
to believe that AT&T employees were actually convicts.” AT&T might as well have argued, “We’re the phone company, we don’t have to think it's funny.”</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Read the full post on the Web of Language: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><a href="http://bit.ly/1O2SVq2" class="">http://bit.ly/1O2SVq2</a></span>
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