McDonald’s Workers Are Told Whom to Vote for

[tater]

No, I honestly don't see how you can reasonably legislate their speech away without causing greater harm.

Should unions be forced to be a-political in all mailings, and only political at dinner parties, etc?

Just don't see a good stopping point.

[VonHesse]

It seems that some of you are intentionally missing the point. No one is infringing on the company's right to free speech. The fact of the matter is that attaching the note to employee paychecks is ILLEGAL under current Ohio law. There's really no grey area here. The law says not to do it, therefore it shouldn't have been done, and the franchise owner (not McDonalds) is in violation of the law.

From the original artlcle :

...distribution of the pamphlet — which was printed on a McDonald’s letterhead — violates a 1953 Ohio statute that prohibits political material from being attached to wage envelopes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/us...o.html?_r=1&bl

Not that I expect that the introduction of facts to into the discussion will change anyone's opinion...