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.

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.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    It’s not a right. Wearing a fucking pin means nothing and grants nobody freedom.

    Further…

    Also, they won’t even let you recognize veterans by wearing a poppy

    I’m in this class as an ex-army veteran… Don’t wear a poppy for us in the USA. It means nothing here.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        LMFAO. Yeah… alright. You know nothing about this country then. Keep railing on it without knowing anything about it then.

        Wearing a pin or paraphernalia accomplishes nothing expect giving the corporate fuckhead that made that paraphernalia money, and makes yourself feel good.

        You wearing a poppy doesn’t actually help a veteran. Get over yourself. I don’t find myself lacking help or support nor do I demand acknowledgement.

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            41·
            1 year ago

            Yup, more ad hominem. You know that reflects on you right?

            I have plenty of things that I like. I also know that there’s a time and place for it. While I’m working isn’t either. It’s just called common decency.

              • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
                22·
                1 year ago

                I don’t believe that adhering to a dress policy is societal oppression. Period. But that seems to be way over your head. If you believe that you NEED the ability to wear that stuff… get a job that allows it. It’s as simple as that. It’s the ultimate freedom.

                  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
                    32·
                    1 year ago

                    What if you’re a black teen and the only job you can get is at Whole Foods?

                    Then don’t piss off the only employer in your area? That’s not Whole Foods [or anyone elses really] problem.

                    Then your boss tells you not to acknowledge [BLM, please don’t conflate the scenario here]

                    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 you’re own ass, you’re unable to sympathize with any marginalized group

                    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.