Amazon.comās Whole Foods Market doesnāt want to be forced to let workers wear āBlack Lives Matterā 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 itās forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.
Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high courtās June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case āprovides a clear roadmapā to throw out the NLRBās 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.
A company not wanting itās employees to wear politicized materials while at work is what makes you mad? I suppose you also want them to be able to wear rebel flag or SS masks? A Trump facemask with MAGA on it? Maybe you just read the title?
Black Lives Matter is a unambiguously good stance.
The rebel flag signifies support for people who fought a war against their fellows for the right to hold others in chains. SS signifies support for a mass murderās campaign to subjugate the world and drag the world into darkness. Support for Trump is support for an autocrat who would replace Democracy with a cult of personality.
The fact that you cannot distinguish these beyond lumping them together as political stances doesnāt speak well for your analytical skills. How about you can support your fellow man but you canāt support evil?
BLM may be a good thing, but the simple fact is that it has still become politicized and while not displaying BLM causes no customers to get pissy, displaying it does get some customers pissy. Companies arenāt obligated to ārock the boatā.
Maybe we shouldnāt coddle and normalize bigots
So all it takes for you to stop supporting a cause is for someone to make it political, no matter how good or helpful it is?
So say you find out your boss is stealing from you and you want to stop that from happening but then somebody makes up a stylized ābosses are thievesā logo, and now suddenly workers all over the country canāt do anything to fight against wage theft at work?
If someone says āthe bosses are thievesā, theyāre making a political statement and should be silenced? Please, help me understand how this works for you, because honestly it sounds like weāre gonna be losing a whole shit ton of rights in your world.
Youāre thinking like a person instead of a business. If you run a business you arenāt going to want your employees wearing whatever slogans/agendas/sayings they want that might upset customers. The workplace isnāt an advertisement center for whatever an employee wants. You arenāt allowed to work at target unless youāre wearing khakis and a plain red shirt. Your employer is allowed to keep a neutral tone and stay out of hot topics if they want to.
A lot of people donāt think that businesses should be allowed to control every element of their employees appearance. This is quite similar to a controversy in France when Euro Disneyland opened there and they had rules about how employees were allowed to have their hair and whether or not they could have piercings etc. In France and much of Europe itās considered normal that an employee should have some bodily autonomy even if theyāre in the work place, but Disney was an American company so to them their employees shouldnāt mind their employer exerting so much control over them.
Sure itās probably in the businessesā interest to make sure their employees all look a certain way, but to some that isnāt as important as employees being able to have agency over themselves and how they look.
Theyāre taking sides either way. This decision says to me theyāre taking the side of racists that donāt believe black lives matter.
Most companies advertise the support BLM, itās just good marketing. Banning BLM is the opposite of this. Itās not a good business decisions. Theyāve lost me as a customer, and I donāt think Iām all that special.
Not a good business move.
Thereās nothing good about supporting a terrorist organization
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Yeah they sure are
Itās not actually a problematic political stance to state that Black Lives Matter, itās unambiguously good, whereas the other things you mention are hate speech, hope that helps.
I didnāt say it was good, bad, or neutral. The fact is that it doesnāt matter, because as Iāve already stated, itās a politicized subject.
No I donāt want them to allow Confederate, Nazi, or Trump symbols. Because those things suck.
What is it with people that think that weāre supposed to be fair to racist assholes? Learn a little about the paradox of tolerance, ok?