Tom Bri
Member
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE LIBERTY ROUND TABLE
3/30/04; For Immediate Distribution
Liberty Activist Retroactively Fired by Verizon Communications
On March 29, 2004, Jeffrey "the Hunter" Jordan, a resident of New
Hampshire, received notice dated 3/26/04 that Verizon Communications
had fired him, retroactive to January 7, 2004. In the letter, the
stated reason for the firing was "failure to comply with the policies
outlined within Verizon's Code of Business Conduct". No details on
how Mr. Jordan failed to comply with the company's policies were
provided. Jordan is planning to fight this action. Friends of his at
the Liberty Round Table, a group that advocates individual liberty
and personal responsibility, have begun calling for a boycott of
Verizon over the company's questionable actions regarding his case.
There is reason to believe the firing is related to Mr. Jordan's
arrest on 12/29/03 in Ohio for carrying a concealed weapon. At that
time he was on his way home from a holiday visit to his family in
Kansas. After being detained a few days in the Ashland County jail,
and despite having arranged for extra time off from Verizon, Jordan
returned home to a phone message from his employer stating that he
was suspended from his position.
Why has Mr. Jordan been suspended and then retroactively fired,
without any hearing on either action, as is required by the terms of
his employment contract? These questions have gone unanswered, as
requests to Verizon seeking information on its activities have not
brought any response.
Sunni Maravillosa, a friend of Jordan's and a fellow Liberty Round
Table activist, said, "It is curious that Verizon is apparently
firing Hunter for actions taken hundreds of miles from his Verizon
work sites, in his own vehicle, and while on personal time. Also,
that they've taken this action in violation of his contract, and
without any due process or presumption of innocence, should be very
troubling to all Americans."
Carl Bussjaeger, a friend of Jordan's in New Hampshire, commented, "I
look forward to Verizon explaining in court why they met with
Hunter's union after January 7th to discuss his ongoing suspension.
If he was already fired, wouldn't that have been a dandy time to
mention the fact?"
Jordan has issued the following statement: "I have for years now been
subject to the day-to-day thoughtless tyrannies inherent in any big
corporation. I have consciously chosen to tolerate these very real
oppressions as part of the cost of earning a living, but now the
corporate bureaucrats have gone too far.
"Verizon has consciously chosen to ignore one of the fundamental
assumptions of American jurisprudence -- that a man is innocent until
proven guilty. They've also chosen to blatantly violate the contract
that tens of thousands of union employees fought long and hard over
the years to hammer out.
"I am confident that justice will prevail in the end, and am fully
prepared to fight these petty tyrants hiding behind the corporate
veil just as strongly as I have every other sort I've run across in
my journey through life."
People interested in joining the fight against this injustice are
encouraged to write to Verizon, for which address information and
letter templates can be found here:
http://www.gbronline.com/cwb/samizdat/huntersamples.html
For the latest news on Mr. Jordan's case, see the official "Free
Hunter" web pages:
http://www.libertyroundtable.org/projects/freehunter/
For further comments, please contact Sunni Maravillosa, co-founder of
the Liberty Round Table (http://www.libertyroundtable.org/), at
[email protected].
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3/30/04; For Immediate Distribution
Liberty Activist Retroactively Fired by Verizon Communications
On March 29, 2004, Jeffrey "the Hunter" Jordan, a resident of New
Hampshire, received notice dated 3/26/04 that Verizon Communications
had fired him, retroactive to January 7, 2004. In the letter, the
stated reason for the firing was "failure to comply with the policies
outlined within Verizon's Code of Business Conduct". No details on
how Mr. Jordan failed to comply with the company's policies were
provided. Jordan is planning to fight this action. Friends of his at
the Liberty Round Table, a group that advocates individual liberty
and personal responsibility, have begun calling for a boycott of
Verizon over the company's questionable actions regarding his case.
There is reason to believe the firing is related to Mr. Jordan's
arrest on 12/29/03 in Ohio for carrying a concealed weapon. At that
time he was on his way home from a holiday visit to his family in
Kansas. After being detained a few days in the Ashland County jail,
and despite having arranged for extra time off from Verizon, Jordan
returned home to a phone message from his employer stating that he
was suspended from his position.
Why has Mr. Jordan been suspended and then retroactively fired,
without any hearing on either action, as is required by the terms of
his employment contract? These questions have gone unanswered, as
requests to Verizon seeking information on its activities have not
brought any response.
Sunni Maravillosa, a friend of Jordan's and a fellow Liberty Round
Table activist, said, "It is curious that Verizon is apparently
firing Hunter for actions taken hundreds of miles from his Verizon
work sites, in his own vehicle, and while on personal time. Also,
that they've taken this action in violation of his contract, and
without any due process or presumption of innocence, should be very
troubling to all Americans."
Carl Bussjaeger, a friend of Jordan's in New Hampshire, commented, "I
look forward to Verizon explaining in court why they met with
Hunter's union after January 7th to discuss his ongoing suspension.
If he was already fired, wouldn't that have been a dandy time to
mention the fact?"
Jordan has issued the following statement: "I have for years now been
subject to the day-to-day thoughtless tyrannies inherent in any big
corporation. I have consciously chosen to tolerate these very real
oppressions as part of the cost of earning a living, but now the
corporate bureaucrats have gone too far.
"Verizon has consciously chosen to ignore one of the fundamental
assumptions of American jurisprudence -- that a man is innocent until
proven guilty. They've also chosen to blatantly violate the contract
that tens of thousands of union employees fought long and hard over
the years to hammer out.
"I am confident that justice will prevail in the end, and am fully
prepared to fight these petty tyrants hiding behind the corporate
veil just as strongly as I have every other sort I've run across in
my journey through life."
People interested in joining the fight against this injustice are
encouraged to write to Verizon, for which address information and
letter templates can be found here:
http://www.gbronline.com/cwb/samizdat/huntersamples.html
For the latest news on Mr. Jordan's case, see the official "Free
Hunter" web pages:
http://www.libertyroundtable.org/projects/freehunter/
For further comments, please contact Sunni Maravillosa, co-founder of
the Liberty Round Table (http://www.libertyroundtable.org/), at
[email protected].
Freedom, Immortality, and the Stars!
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
http://www.LibertyRoundTable.org/
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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