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.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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      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.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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          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.

            • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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              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.

                • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  Well I wouldn’t go to a different store to protest

                  Right… So what does THAT [or any really…] particular Whole Foods have anything to do with BLM? So why protest while you’re working? Does it make sense to WORK for the people you’re apparently protesting against? That’s a bit counter-intuitive…

                  And BLM is not POLITICAL

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

                  Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement

                  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/09/black-lives-matter-pac-428403

                  Black Lives Matter launches a political action committee

                  https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21306771/black-lives-matter-george-floyd-protest-michael-kazin

                  BLM is succeeding — culturally and politically.

                  So… You sure about that? I can provide more if you’d like…

                  Protesting isn’t done out of convenience, or postponed for the convenience of others…

                  When you’ve sold your time to someone else, it shouldn’t be done at all. Or at the very least with their blessing/permission.

                  And “just quit”? What fucking cushy world do you live in where you can hop from job to job? Especially if you were black, or trans, and other places could be equally as discriminatory?

                  The same ones you would if you lives near me. There’s plenty of jobs to have. Literally have access to dozens of jobs at several different wage points within walking distance of me. They’ve been publicly advertising the need for workers desperately for years at this point. But see… you seem to be too entitled to just follow a simple fucking dress code… so many places probably wont want to hire you since you’re unable to follow simple policies. If your job, whatever it is… decided that you need to show up in khakis and a button shirt starting tomorrow with no visible writing/logos (other than maybe the tags on the clothing itself)… Is that racism? Would you scream that they’re being unfair? Or maybe they just want you to appear more professional to your customers? But this is a different problem all together. Being desirable by companies usually means you play by their rules in regards to the time you’re working for them.