I was speaking legally. Personally, I think it would probably be stupid to fire people for this, or even make the rule in the first place. I'm surprised Weyerhauser even tried it in a place where so many people own guns, given the costs to employee morale.
It looks like we're reading from the same sheet of music. Weyerhauser technically had the legal right to do what they did...but it was a lousy business move promoted by shortsighted managers. I'll suspect that factory still doesn't produce widgets like it did in the past.
They would have been smarter to place posters in the lunchrooms and send notices in the paychecks announcing firearms were no longer allowed on company property...if they felt that strongly about it. Having an unannounced search in the parking lot was stupid. I live thousands of miles from where this occured, but I go out of my way to avoid Weyerhauser timber and paper products whenever possible. That is no way to treat decent and hard-working personnel.
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