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submitted 9 months ago by Grayox@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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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[-] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 9 months 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.

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 48 points 9 months ago

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

[-] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago

You can't escape those fucks living in Texas. They're everywhere.

[-] davi@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

in austin; those fucks call themselves liberal.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

It was shitty and ruled by a worker abusing chud before Lord Bezos bought it, too.

[-] pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

I think I've heard about this.

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