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.
What if you’re a black teen and the only job you can get is at Whole Foods?
Then your boss tells you not to acknowledge or talk about the movement trying to promote equality and acceptance after years of brutal and horrible treatment.
You’re so up you’re own ass, you’re unable to sympathize with any marginalized group
Then don’t piss off the only employer in your area? That’s not Whole Foods [or anyone elses really] problem.
No. The policy is NO branding other than whole foods. This isn’t targeted at anyone in particular. If you believe that whole foods is treating you poorly then you leave the job. That’s it.
You’re so up your own that you didn’t even stop to realize that I might be part of those groups myself the funny part is my group was treated worse for literally hundreds of years longer but you do you. You’re making assumptions without realizing that this has nothing to do with any of what your talking about. It’s literally just a bog standard basic dress code, not an anti-BLM plot.
It’s a bigger argument than some dress code, numbnuts. If you cant see that, youre blind
It’s literally not. If you insert any other argument then you’re wrong.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-dismisses-whole-foods-workers-lawsuit-over-black-lives-matter-masks-2023-01-23/
You can literally read the full decision from the judge if you like. If you can find evidence that Whole Foods was acting against the employees unfairly, then I’m sure the plaintiffs lawyers would like to hire you on as a partner in their firm.
Now who’'s using logic fallacies, “I’m part of a marginalized group but I don’t push for better treatment of my people, therefore no one else should try”
Not even close. I’m part of a marginalized group, but don’t make it my whole identity. I came from immigrant parents, am first generation American, worked hard to get where I am and am raising up those around me as well. You know what doesn’t help? Wearing a fucking pin or logo.
Does protest or symbolism mean anything to you? You’re fine with the status quo, don’t rock the boat, be as inoffensive as possible?
If there were no pins, would you claim signs don’t help?
Should black people just ask politely, off company time, to please not be killed by police just because of their skin tone?
Let’s put this in perspective. What has Whole Foods done to warrant being protested against in regards to BLM? Is Whole Foods racist for applying a policy fairly across the board?
Why would you protest Whole Foods if they’ve done nothing wrong? Why would you stress your contract with a company you’re working for that has a known dress code in order to “protest” something that the company has no part in?
What does the “protest” resolve at a Whole Foods? Does it make other people who are just trying to live uncomfortable to be confronted with something that is ultimately politically charged when they just want to buy some fucking frozen pizza’s and milk for their family?
Yes
No
If the Westboro Baptist Church or Scientologists set fire to all the neighboring black homes in their area… and you went to Whole Foods to protest that act… Do you think that would be effective? Do you think it would be meaningful? Wouldn’t you rather see them protest where it matters? Like I dunno… At the organization that actually created the problem or is actively participating in the problem?
Since a job is effectively selling your time to work for a company in return for compensation it’s fair to the company to violate their policies while they’re paying you?
You talk about morals before… but cheating a company out of the contract that you signed seems pretty scummy. Like I’ve said before… find another job if the morals of the company doesn’t align with your own.
Well I wouldn’t go to a different store to protest the one that’s suppressing even mentioning an oppressed demographic or civil movement that’s for sure (what the fuck are you even talking about, man) I’d love to see Whole Foods and Amazon crumble. But I don’t live near their headquarters, do I?
And BLM is not POLITICAL, HOLY fuck, that is the most idiotic take ever. It’s civil rights. It’s trying to change the world to for the better, for PEOPLE, not a political party.
Protesting isn’t done out of convenience, or postponed for the convenience of others… it’s not MEANT to be comfortable to talk about. Its trying to stop a systemic problem that NEEDS to stop if humanity is to progress.
And “just quit”? What fucking cushy world do you live in where you can hop from job to job? Especially if you were black, or trans, and other places could be equally as discriminatory?
Right… So what does THAT [or any really…] particular Whole Foods have anything to do with BLM? So why protest while you’re working? Does it make sense to WORK for the people you’re apparently protesting against? That’s a bit counter-intuitive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/09/black-lives-matter-pac-428403
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21306771/black-lives-matter-george-floyd-protest-michael-kazin
So… You sure about that? I can provide more if you’d like…
When you’ve sold your time to someone else, it shouldn’t be done at all. Or at the very least with their blessing/permission.
The same ones you would if you lives near me. There’s plenty of jobs to have. Literally have access to dozens of jobs at several different wage points within walking distance of me. They’ve been publicly advertising the need for workers desperately for years at this point. But see… you seem to be too entitled to just follow a simple fucking dress code… so many places probably wont want to hire you since you’re unable to follow simple policies. If your job, whatever it is… decided that you need to show up in khakis and a button shirt starting tomorrow with no visible writing/logos (other than maybe the tags on the clothing itself)… Is that racism? Would you scream that they’re being unfair? Or maybe they just want you to appear more professional to your customers? But this is a different problem all together. Being desirable by companies usually means you play by their rules in regards to the time you’re working for them.
This is going nowhere, man. I don’t understand you and your opinions. They’re cold and shortsighted.
If rules mean that much to you, then that’s fine, but some rules are made by people with ulterior motives.
I’m not talking about starting a giant protest circle in the middle of Whole Foods. It’s like you said, a fucking pin.
But if you honestly don’t believe that small acts of showing that there are good people out there, and who support people fighting a fight that isnt necessarily theirs but feel they have a responsibility to show they’re aware… Then what the hell do you believe in?
Yes, protest and strikes are what make real results. And the world needs more people who organize those and stand up to assholes, to raise awareness of what’s going on.
Whatever group you belong to, I believe you’d appreciate someone acknowledging the state of the world and how your people have historically been treated
I’ll let you have your long, elaborately structured final word , it doesn’t matter at this point really
Are you fucking serious
Yes… So can you answer ANY question I posed? Or are you just going to post unrelated images?
That’s literally the message they were trying to suppress their employees from representing.