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.

      • M68040 [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        Not just theirs. None of this is worth anything

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        oh no did black people burn businesses owned by white people who don't live in their communities and only have businesses there to extract any wealth from them?

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        acting like you were there and know what happened when you actually sat at home on your ass so you could post about it is peak whiteness.