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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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[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (20 children)

Honesty, imo, shame on Amazon for not barring anything but solid-colored, patterned, or Bezos-Empire-Branded masks, explicitly, in their dress code.

I’m a (mostly) vegan, liberal AF, solidly middle-class, homeowner married millenial parent (i.e the portrait of a Whole Foods customer), and I agree with BLM, but I would be put off by any political or politicalized messaging in a supplier/customer relationship. I’m here for your general tao seitan and a TTLA…not for your influence.

[–] araneae@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

How Cool And Liberal and definitely not two faced. So while black people begin to avoid Whole Foods, you'll still be shopping there because its not a problem for you. And as a good liberal of course, you agree there's no reason people can state "black lives matter to me" on their clothes. Sure, in the privacy of your own property but not in Massa's house. Bezo's free speech quashes the protections of the speech of his lessers and... that is simply the law. You're relieved of guilt.

You know, I'm not a tankie, but the self deluding, boot licking, and casual racist assumptions about whose lives are "political statements" based on their lamenting of being constantly murdered and stepped on by society, do give me a sympathetic window into their specific disgust of neoliberals. People like you go along to get along and nothing more.

You're quite fine with racism because Whole Foods is cheap.

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