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submitted 1 year 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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[-] SankaraStone@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't forget, Corporations are Peopleᵀᴹ

[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Corporations are people the same way Soylent Green is people, in that it is made of them. That's it.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

In the legal sense, "personhood" just means an entity can appear in court and defend themselves, not that it's made of people. It doesn't even give the corporation any human rights, it mostly just means that you can sue them

I don't know why anyone would be mad about than

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