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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[–] 156 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (21 children)

You can get mad at Amazon, but really it's the Supreme Court you should be mad at. Amazon is going to take advantage of whatever it thinks will make them more money. The government is the thing that is supposed to keep them in check.

Edit: A lot of people seem to be reading something different from what I wrote. I didn't say you shouldn't be mad at Amazon, or that Amazon isn't at fault for their own actions. What I did say is that you should expect this type of behavior from a business and should expect our government to do a better job at keeping this behavior in check.

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  • [–] 130 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’m mad at both. Amazon is trash. The current court is trash. And all the ghouls that got us this shit ass court are trash, from Mcconnell to Trump to every dummy that votes for Trump to the stupid stupid Democrats who didn’t fight tooth and nail when Obama’s pick didn’t get a hearing and didn’t pack the courts at the 1st opportunity. Oh and fuck RGB who should have fucking retired at the start of Obama’s 1st term. Octogenarians who survived multiple bouts of cancer don’t have the luxury of hanging out so the 1st female president gets to appoint their successor. Democrats are so fucking inept it’s hard to believe that they aren’t sandbagging us on purpose

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    it’s hard to believe that they aren’t sandbagging us on purpose

    It’s hard to believe that they’re not doing it on purpose exactly because they are doing it on purpose. The system isn’t broken, it’s doing exactly what it is designed to do. You cannot use the system against itself. Voting helps prevent the greater evil but that just gets you the lesser evil. If you want an answer that is not evil at all, we need to create that entirely separately, outside of the established system and politics.

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    [–] [S] 131 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Fuck Wholefoods

    None of my homies shop at Wholefoods

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    [–] 81 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    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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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    iiuc, wf is not saying that customers can't wear BLM masks. They don't want to show a political stance and, as a result, don't want BLM masks worn by their employees, because that could be misconstrued as wf or Amazon taking a political stance. I can understand that. However, they, then, must ban ALL shows of politics in their store by them and their employees, and that includes LGBTQIA+ stuff. Otherwise, they're just banning BLM stuff, which will be misconstrued (notice the crossed out 'mis') as them taking a political stance against black folks.

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    [–] 44 points 3 years ago (33 children)

    Being tired and thinking Bureau of Land Management made this very confusing at glance.

    Also fuck the courts for that BS.

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    [–] 35 points 3 years ago

    What a wild hill to die on.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago

    Time to start wearing a mask that says Union

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (53 children)

    Holy shit. So Amazon and Whole Foods are just openly racist now. Not even trying to hide it anymore.

    Conservatives will be celebrating as soon as they have someone read this article to them.

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    [+] 34 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (100 children)

    Why does anybody think it’s a good idea to wear political statements into work? Just do your job.

    Imagine if you ran a business and one of your customer-facing employees showed up in a MAGA hat. You’d probably want them to leave it at home right?

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago

    In that case, the workers should wear union masks instead.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago

    Companies have no rights unlimited genocide on corporate personhood

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    After reading this, why am I getting a feeling in my stomach that reminds me of being on a roller coaster right before a big drop? Why do I feel like all of America is going to be like that very soon?

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    [–] 24 points 3 years ago

    Very simple fix
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Land_Management

    Now Amazon is an anti-governmental organization

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (16 children)

    Free speech for me but not for thee.

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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    That Bill of Rights isn't for humans. It's for corporations.

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Exsqueeze me? What the amazon fuck, WholeFoods.

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