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.

  • azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It's not "Whole Foods" it's Amazon. Whole Foods died when Amazon bought them.

    source: I'm from Austin and know several people that work there from employees to management. They killed everything that was whole foods.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure Whole Foods had shitty conservative executives back then too didn’t they?

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        I'm pretty sure it was one of the best places to work in the retail/grocery industry because of their profit sharing.

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          And then Amazon bought them and as I'm certain it was fucking awful to work there.

          edit: seems familiar… package deliveries, pickers, warehouse workers, pee bottles

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      It's been like that about Whole Foods since the 80s. John Mackey is a libertarian fuckhead and it's been a series of people realizing it ever since.

      They hired union busters all the time.

      In the 10's he tried to sell his book "conscious capitalism" on the shelves. Surprise surprise, no one bought it.