Toledo Blade

If the retaliated, he'd be unemployed.

 

There are plenty of ways to retaliate.

 

Did they discriminate against or harass him?

 

Doesn't appear to be discrimination. Don't know if the union is arguing that taking his beat away is harassment or a different form of retaliation. Don't know how they classify it. It appears to be unique and in response to his criticism of management.

 

I still consider him lucky, especially in a no-cause state like Ohio, that he still has a paycheck. They could argue he was promoted, if he wants to charge retaliation.

 

Perhaps the only reason he wasn't fired is that he's in a union, so it would look much more like retaliation if he were fired after the comments.

 

Nick the sports writer really appears to be going scorched earth on Twitter. Not what I’d do. Certainly not what I’d suggest for him to do. But, if he’s that unhappy, he might have one foot out the door; I remember working the breaking news beat early in my career and it was enough to make me want to quit, too.

 

I thought Col. Jessup's deal was scorched earth.

 

This happened a long time ago but I knew a guy who worked on the chain of suburban weeklies. Their most prominent reporter wrote a feature story on his experience as a part-time cab driver. I asked my buddy why the star reporter had to moonlight.

He said the guy had reported management to the state for violations of overtime laws. The paper had lost and had to pay staff a lot of money. My buddy said this made the cab driver a hero among staff. But management had decided that they could not risk a law suit by firing him but they were never going to give him another raise.

So the star reporter had to get a second job. But at least he got his picture in the paper driving his cab.

 

Update: The NLRB is now involved.