Ohio is in a hot debate on a referendum question about whether abortion should become a constitutional right.
The debate is so hot that it forced one restaurant to close. The owner of the Copper Blue restaurant, Brian Arlinghous, came out against it and posted a big sign urging people to vote no on the referendum. This, in turn, led to an exodus of his employees who quit over it:
“I’m distraught, honestly,” said former employee Jessika Lambert. “I hate that this is how we have to end things because it’s a discussion that never should’ve been brought up to begin with.”
Lambert said she worked at Copper Blue for a year and a half before she quit her position as assistant general manager on Thursday.
“Women deserve rights, that’s the simple answer,” Lambert said.
The really crazy part is how indoctrinated the public is to the corporate mentality. The report ended with customers saying that the owner had a right to put up the sign but that the people didn't have a right to quit.
I agree that the owner did indeed have the right to put up the sign. We still have free speech, for the moment anyway. But free speech goes both way. In fact, some workers were complaining that they did not feel safe because of the owner's actions. It is a federal law that workers don't have to work in an unsafe environment.
What's happening is that the owner hit the find out stage of events and people don't like it because it means the people are taking their rights and their power back.
