[Ads-l] Court rules, with T-shirts at work, you can't always say what you want

[Baron, Dennis E]

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.

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.”

Read the full post on the Web of Language: ‪http://bit.ly/1O2SVq2


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