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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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[-] Serpent@feddit.uk -3 points 1 year ago

So what stopped you wearing your BLM shirt?

[-] Lowered_lifted@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Like fuck you very much for implying that I don't believe black lives matter? When I literally just described the repression of political speech in the workplace I faced?

[-] Serpent@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

You chose to write it on the internet. I didn't expect you to get upset at a basic question.

All I wanted to know was how they stopped you when other people were allowed to wear political clothing. I'm not implying anything.

[-] Lowered_lifted@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Idk if you've ever worked a shitty oppressive "essential" job during the peak of a pandemic because you couldn't afford to quit, & the US unemployment system doesn't pay out if you get fired for a cause dress code violations, so I had to not wear it in order to stay employed. I hope you understand, random who is casting aspersions on me and blaming me for the oppression and double standard and my workplace taking a racist political position, that I just described.

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