Whole Foods Argues It Can Ban BLM Masks

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... 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. ...

At this point, based upon all I have read, I tend to agree with Amazon.

And, yes, I am as surprised as you are.

I have no problem with an employer saying that employees cannot display political, I'll say, alignments while working.

The employee is there to help customers, not to state a political opinion.

@#12 ... We would be much better off if all candidate or policy favoring politics was banned from being promoted by ...

imo, private businesses can set their dress codes for employees while working.

@#14 ... It's only political for those who choose to make it political. Black Lives Matter is a statement of fact, not politics. ...

Regardless of what some think is actually is or is not, imo, it is still within the rights of an employer to set dress codes.

@#16 ... But what employer doesn't allow employees to wear emblems of support for various non-work causes - many of which the company supports themselves?...

Whole Foods, apparently. Is Whole Foods applying this fairly? My guess is that we will soon find out.

I view this similar to the wedding cake thing.

When people (or corporations) go into business with the public, the business needs to focus on exactly that, the business.

Ya know, Capitalism, and all that.

Whether it is providing a cake for a wedding that the business disagrees with, or having employees not wearing political (yes, imo, BLM is political. The first words on their website are, "Join the Movement to fight for Freedom, Liberation and Justice" blacklivesmatter.com ) the focus should be on the business, not the politics.

A business is in business to serve customers. Period. Full Stop.

Every law-abiding person that walks through the door of a business should be treated with the same business manner. If that requires politically bland business attire or creating an amazing wedding cake for a couple, then so be it.