Chaim wrotE:

"aS FAR AS i KNOW, EVERYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO WORK."

i DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS IS TRUE. tHE RIGHT TO WORK IS CERTAINLY NOT IN
THE u.s. cONSTITUTION. i BELIEVE THAT THE RIGHT TO A JOB WAS GRANTED BY
THE Soviet Union, but that was there and this is here.

The applicable right in the U.S. is the right to association. The right to
associate implies the right to not associate. An employer in a private
business has a commitment to his customers, his creditors, to his
employees and to whomever else he has volutarily contracted to associate
with.

His freedom is a consequence and necessary condition for all of his
rights. One man's need for food, clothing and shelter should not obligate
another man to provide those things in any way. One man's freedom to
attempt to gain employment does not trump another man's right to exercise
his control over his own resources as he sees fit.

To believe otherwise is to concede the moral premise of an egalitarian and
totalitarian state and to reject the moral premise of individual liberty.
(There still are a few countries where one man's need is another man's
duty to fill it, where every body is guarenteed a job. But I don't think
North Korea or Cuba are going to be around much longer.)

Please, feel free to strike a compromise with the company, but don't
compromise the principal that each person has the right to do what he
wants with his own property, and the right to be free from coersion from
other individuals or the state.

Peter Seymour