American Medical Response of Connecticut,fired the employee and accused her of violating polices that they should not deface the company on Facebook or on any other social media outlet. The labor board states she is allowed freedom of speech 
except the difference here was that he did it on Facebook and was not speaking verbally. She did it on her own time on her own computer at home and according to this article several other employees joined in with comments about the same supervisor.
The company said there were other issues that lead to her dismissal, but one message comes out here and that is being careful about what you say on Facebook when it is public record, that is if you don’t want to have a situation like this occur. If there are other reasons for being dismissed I’m sure the Facebook portion will take the back seat if those are actual violations. BD
The labor relations board announced last week that it had filed a complaint against an ambulance service, American Medical Response of Connecticut, that fired an emergency medical technician, accusing her, among other things, of violating a policy that bars employees from depicting the company “in any way” on Facebook or other social media sites in which they post pictures of themselves.
Lafe Solomon, the board’s acting general counsel, said, “This is a fairly straightforward case under the National Labor Relations Act — whether it takes place on Facebook or at the water cooler, it was employees talking jointly about working conditions, in this case about their supervisor, and they have a right to do that.”
“The employee was also held accountable for negative personal attacks against a co-worker posted publicly on Facebook. The company believes that the offensive statements made against the co-workers were not concerted activity protected under federal law.”
Worker Rights Extend to Facebook, Labor Board Says - NYTimes.com
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