792
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.

(page 7) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I never go to whole foods. I wish I did, just so I can start wearing a BLM mask going there. But don't wanna give them any of my money for protesting.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
792 points (95.5% liked)

World News

32352 readers
349 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS