If you’re the 49ers’ boss, please stand up

The question for the 49ers is, who’s the boss?

All we know is that it probably isn’t Tony Danza.

The boss should be team CEO Jed York, but that’s not clear. York has said he has “no tolerance” for domestic abuse, yet linebacker Reuben Foster, charged with felony domestic abuse, is still with the 49ers, free to hang out at team HQ, at least when dealing with player-engagement staff. It’s good that we won’t see Foster in a 49ers uniform while he’s under fire, legally, but many wonder why he’s still officially with the 49ers.

No-tolerance lite? It’s all so vague. Who’s making the call, and why?

The 49ers’ latest news release, saying Foster “will not participate in team activities” pending the legal process, was attributed to York, general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan.

A good boss seeks input when making big decisions, but a good boss is a boss.

When a substance-addled Aldon Smith crashed his truck into a tree, head coach Jim Harbaugh, famed constitutional due-process scholar, bullied York into letting Smith play the next game.

Now it appears that York, in his quest for wins, lured Lynch and Shanahan to Santa Clara with promises of full control over who stays and who goes. It appears those decisions are sometimes player-value-based.

A year ago, the 49ers cut Tramaine Brock almost immediately after his domestic-abuse arrest. With Foster, Lynch’s high-risk second draft pick (first round), there’s no such rush to judgment.

By letting Foster hang around with no real explanation, the 49ers promote the appearance that they’re waiting to let money and fear work their magic by making a domesticabuse case disappear.

It would be helpful if York would explain who is making these major decisions that affect the team and the community.

Actually, York did say who’s calling the shots. After Foster’s arrest, York told NBC Sports Bay Area that if the 49ers can’t rely on Foster, if it is “proven” that he has done stuff with which the team is not comfortable, “I think the guys have said then you’re just going to have to move on.” For now, that’s the answer to “Who’s the boss?”

It’s “the guys.”