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.

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.

    • Saik0English
      0•1 year ago

      I don’t believe that adhering to a dress policy is societal oppression. Period. But that seems to be way over your head. If you believe that you NEED the ability to wear that stuff… get a job that allows it. It’s as simple as that. It’s the ultimate freedom.

        • Saik0English
          1•1 year ago

          What if you’re a black teen and the only job you can get is at Whole Foods?

          Then don’t piss off the only employer in your area? That’s not Whole Foods [or anyone elses really] problem.

          Then your boss tells you not to acknowledge [BLM, please don’t conflate the scenario here]

          No. The policy is NO branding other than whole foods. This isn’t targeted at anyone in particular. If you believe that whole foods is treating you poorly then you leave the job. That’s it.

          You’re so up you’re own ass, you’re unable to sympathize with any marginalized group

          You’re so up your own that you didn’t even stop to realize that I might be part of those groups myself the funny part is my group was treated worse for literally hundreds of years longer but you do you. You’re making assumptions without realizing that this has nothing to do with any of what your talking about. It’s literally just a bog standard basic dress code, not an anti-BLM plot.

            • Saik0English
              2•1 year ago

              It’s literally not. If you insert any other argument then you’re wrong.

              https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-dismisses-whole-foods-workers-lawsuit-over-black-lives-matter-masks-2023-01-23/

              “The evidence demonstrates only that Whole Foods did not strenuously enforce the dress code policy until mid-2020, and that when it increased enforcement, it did so uniformly,” Burroughs wrote in a 28-page decision.

              You can literally read the full decision from the judge if you like. If you can find evidence that Whole Foods was acting against the employees unfairly, then I’m sure the plaintiffs lawyers would like to hire you on as a partner in their firm.

            • Saik0English
              3•1 year ago

              Not even close. I’m part of a marginalized group, but don’t make it my whole identity. I came from immigrant parents, am first generation American, worked hard to get where I am and am raising up those around me as well. You know what doesn’t help? Wearing a fucking pin or logo.

                • Saik0English
                  1•1 year ago

                  Let’s put this in perspective. What has Whole Foods done to warrant being protested against in regards to BLM? Is Whole Foods racist for applying a policy fairly across the board?

                  Why would you protest Whole Foods if they’ve done nothing wrong? Why would you stress your contract with a company you’re working for that has a known dress code in order to “protest” something that the company has no part in?

                  What does the “protest” resolve at a Whole Foods? Does it make other people who are just trying to live uncomfortable to be confronted with something that is ultimately politically charged when they just want to buy some fucking frozen pizza’s and milk for their family?

                  Does protest

                  Yes

                  or symbolism

                  No

                  mean anything to you?

                  If the Westboro Baptist Church or Scientologists set fire to all the neighboring black homes in their area… and you went to Whole Foods to protest that act… Do you think that would be effective? Do you think it would be meaningful? Wouldn’t you rather see them protest where it matters? Like I dunno… At the organization that actually created the problem or is actively participating in the problem?

                  Since a job is effectively selling your time to work for a company in return for compensation it’s fair to the company to violate their policies while they’re paying you?

                  You talk about morals before… but cheating a company out of the contract that you signed seems pretty scummy. Like I’ve said before… find another job if the morals of the company doesn’t align with your own.