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Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if it’s forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.

Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case “provides a clear roadmap” to throw out the NLRB’s complaint.

The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Holy shit. So Amazon and Whole Foods are just openly racist now. Not even trying to hide it anymore.

Conservatives will be celebrating as soon as they have someone read this article to them.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (39 children)

Jesus y'all. Let me spell this out plainly.

  • BLM is a political organization.

  • Wearing BLM gear is a political statement.

  • Whole Foods doesn't want employee uniforms to make a political statement.

Bet every single person here would be pleased if this was about banning Trump masks. I'll give you a crisp $20 bill if those are allowed. Or any other sort of political speech.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These kids are so blind by the hate bandwagon they can't see what this is. Don't try. On top of that BLM as an organization is trash. Started out as something good, but it's become nothing but another organization that exploits who it proposes to stand for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If this thing was a fight to wear "Make America Great Again!" masks, these people would sing a different tune. And some ass will be along to explain how that's totally different...

The whole notion of BLM is political. In the same sense that no one denies making America great is a bad thing, no one denies black lives matter. Yet they are political slogans, end of story. Whole Foods does not want employees wearing controversial political slogans.

I've supported the idea of BLM from day 1. Even dumped a right-wing buddy I was slowly turning around. I have zero patience for the haters. Zero. But if I owned a business, employees would not be wearing anything that even smelled of politics.

These children can't get their emotions untied from facts.

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