SOURCE LINK:
http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1110/126.html
It's true: Workers can be canned for no good reason at all. Or even for a bad reason, as in the case that seemed to disturb CNN's Aaron Brown a few weeks ago. He was presiding over a segment, presented as utterly incredible, about a worker in Idaho named Michael Edmondson. It seems that Edmondson, an exemplary 22-year veteran at Bennett Lumber Products, had been summarily fired simply for attending public meetings about forest-management proposals that could affect the company--even though he had never spoken up at the meetings, or discussed his views at work, and in any case was just an ordinary employee, not a manager. The Idaho Supreme Court upheld the firing, and CNN had some difficulty explaining how this could be. Anchorman Brown mumbled something about how Idaho was a state in which companies were free to fire "at will."