Whole Foods Claims Employees Wearing BLM Masks Biolates 1A Rights

Brietbart ^ | Jan 9, 2022 | Paul Bois

[jcon40]

The upscale grocery chain Whole Foods claims the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) order to allow its employees to wear “Black Lives Matter” masks violates its constitutional rights.

In October 2020, the Amazon-owned Whole Foods stoked controversy when it announced a new dress code policy that banned its employees from wearing “busy patterns on clothing or face coverings, buttons or pins on employee aprons, ripped jeans, athleisure, and t-shirts with visible logos, slogans, messages, or flags of any kind,” according to Insider.

“When a lot of us started working at Whole Foods back in the day, it was a place where you could wholly be yourself and express your personality while still working your job,” one employee said at the time. “We’re worried that it’s leaning toward a more super-corporate, you’re-just-another-cog-in-the-machine kind of employee situation.”

[jcon40]

Oh Oh

[Jonty30]

The employer 1a rights trumps employee 1a rights on the job site.

THe Supreme Court ruled on that a long time ago.

[Lurker]

“We’re worried that it’s leaning toward a more super-corporate, you’re-just-another-cog-in-the-machine kind of employee situation.”

Go work somewhere else.

L

[rktman]

One time only. Never again. The air of smugiosity was too much for me.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“just-another-cog-in-the-machine”

Cogs of the world, UNITE

[jcon40]

Oops, I hate it when anything is Biolated.

I already looked it’s Not a real word. Just a dumb index finger

[Gaffer]

I wouldn’t patronize a store that allowed its employees to politicize their racist bias.

[Delta 21]

Who signs the payroll checks? But maybe not yours anymore.

[Jayster]

Biolates?

[sauropod]

*sob*

[Radix]

I hate seeing ‘Rights’ biolated.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Terrible headline. It's not the mere fact that employees wear BLM masks that violates the First Amendment. It's that the DOL forcing Whole Foods to permit employees to wear those masks in contravention of a neutral rule prohibiting saying of any kind on masks.

So in essence, employees are making politic statements to customers during working hours, and the DOL says Whole Foods must permit that.

I hope WF keeps fighting that.

[caww]

Where I worked you couldn't wear any thing with writing....especially that which made a political statement. You'd be sent home to change if you did.

[Allegra]

…that banned its employees from wearing “busy patterns on clothing or face coverings, buttons or pins on employee aprons…

No flair!

[metmom]

Express your opinions on your own time.

When you are on company time, you are representing the company to the public. They have a right to control that image.

[LeoWindhorse]

#FBLM

[leaning conservative]

; )

[leaning conservative]

This guy is not too bright if he’s just now figuring out that whole foods is a corporate giant. I like being clueless & not showing everyone I am.

[M_Continuum]

I thought while Food was bought by Amazon?

[jcon40]

Biolates?

Well I did apologize in comment 6

I didn’t mean to biolate anyone. Promise.