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.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    So you deny that BLM is a political org?

    They sure seem to be calling for political action.

    https://blacklivesmatter.com/

    Having a just cause does not make a movement apolitical. Agreeing with that cause does not make the statement apolitical.

    You seem to have your emotions mixed up with facts. And here I thought that was a conservative trait.

    • phar@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      While I would agree that it is political, it’s because it is a movement and has become political. The organization was created after the movement and does not necessarily reflect the will or intentions of the actual movement. It’s like if back in the day there was an org called Women’s Suffrage. It doesn’t mean the focus of all people who want women’s suffrage are part of an organization named that after the movement started.

      • null@slrpnk.net
        5·
        1 year ago

        Women’s suffrage is probably the worst example you could have chosen – in what way is fighting for the right to vote not inherently political?

        • phar@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          I was saying that BLM is a political movement. It’s not necessarily an organization.