Alabama workers say Baton Rouge-based Turner Industries fired them over Confederate flags on vehicle [View all]

Two Alabama men claim they were fired from Turner Industries this week for refusing to remove the Confederate battle flag from their vehicles, according to Alabama television station WHNT News 19.

Turner, which has corporate headquarters in Baton Rouge, is one of the nation’s largest construction management companies.

Phillip Sims told the TV station he doesn’t normally drive to work with the flag on his truck, but he was running late on Monday, and didn’t take the time to remove it. That’s when a a supervisor at the Decatur, Ala., plant told him to remove the flag or be fired. He said he refused to remove it, on principle, and was fired.

A second employee who asked not to be identified told the station the same thing happened to him.

Read more: http://theadvocate.com/news/12980787-123/alabama-workers-say-turner-industries (Baton Rouge Advocate)

[font color=330099]They were warned, they stood up on principle, they were fired. They should know that their freedom of speech does not mean that there aren't free from the consequences of that speech.

Sims has contacted the ACLU to see if they would take up his case.[/font]