Ohio miners forced to attend Romney rally without pay...

[eppie]

What he actually said within context is:
"There were no workers that were forced to attend the event. We had managers that communicated to our workforce that the attendance to the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend the event."

In a last try to make this thread go somewhere reasonable;

Please can someone explain to a non-native English speaker what this means.

They way I read it managers told their workers they had to attend......but no one was FORCED.....meaning what? They could say no but they would be fired?

To me this sounds like a pretty heavy thing. In Holland these managers would be fired and probably prosecuted as well. (as would be the case in most other developed country is my guess).

So probably I just understood it wrong.

ps FIT is it so difficult to keep things a bit decent here?