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.
You can get mad at Amazon, but really itās the Supreme Court you should be mad at. Amazon is going to take advantage of whatever it thinks will make them more money. The government is the thing that is supposed to keep them in check.
Edit: A lot of people seem to be reading something different from what I wrote. I didnāt say you shouldnāt be mad at Amazon, or that Amazon isnāt at fault for their own actions. What I did say is that you should expect this type of behavior from a business and should expect our government to do a better job at keeping this behavior in check.
Iām mad at both. Amazon is trash. The current court is trash. And all the ghouls that got us this shit ass court are trash, from Mcconnell to Trump to every dummy that votes for Trump to the stupid stupid Democrats who didnāt fight tooth and nail when Obamaās pick didnāt get a hearing and didnāt pack the courts at the 1st opportunity. Oh and fuck RGB who should have fucking retired at the start of Obamaās 1st term. Octogenarians who survived multiple bouts of cancer donāt have the luxury of hanging out so the 1st female president gets to appoint their successor. Democrats are so fucking inept itās hard to believe that they arenāt sandbagging us on purpose
Itās hard to believe that theyāre not doing it on purpose exactly because they are doing it on purpose. The system isnāt broken, itās doing exactly what it is designed to do. You cannot use the system against itself. Voting helps prevent the greater evil but that just gets you the lesser evil. If you want an answer that is not evil at all, we need to create that entirely separately, outside of the established system and politics.
I donāt disagree with anything you said. Youāre right on every account. Weāre still seeing it in action as Feinstein refuses to step down and backing up the appointment of judges. RBG and Feinstein both destroyed their legacies by hanging on to power for far too long. Itās insane that Mitt Romney, of all people, is the one I agree with. Heās not going to run and encouraged other old people to stop running and let the next generation have a chance.
Iāll take both please
When the corporations can fund the politicians there is no difference between them.
Yea I will in fact get mad at that kind of behavior. Lots of businesses doing it (and commenters like you normalizing it) doesnāt make them less responsible for their shitty behavior.
They specifically said you can be mad. Itās the first sentence in OPās comment. WTF are you on about?
Did you miss where where the point of their comment was to deemphasize Whole Foodsā fault and culpability in this? Or are you starting a linguistics discussion?
Edit: in other words, they say āYou should expect businesses to act this wayā and I say otherwise
You either get it or you donāt. I canāt help you with your lack of reading comprehension.
They specifically said that āyou can be madā about it.
You want to have it the way that theyāre pushing some kind of agenda, when in fact theyāre simply stating whatās true.
what the fuck is this shit, on my lemmy? fuck them both is the only sane conclusion, not āitās a business so itās fineā
I didnāt say it was fineā¦ I said itās to be expected and the reason they need guard rails.
You expect too much from people. The majority of this platform, like most others, is comprised of emotionally immature children. They simply want to screech when they see something they donāt like. Not approach the subject from a dispassionate viewpoint.
We both know what you said. But since you didnāt publicly attack Amazon, theyāll strawman it so it appears youāre defending them.
Itās kind of wild that Lemmy seems to be even more left and hive minded than Reddit was. In the earlier days, it seemed like it wasnāt going to be that way.
I joined Reddit in 2014. It was great back then. Open discussion (for the most part) was common place. You could disagree, but not everyone was a āfascistā or āliberal commieā. Now insults, extremism, and radical attitudes are common place. No middle ground. āagree with all my viewpoints or youāre the enemyā. Lemmy doesnāt look much different.
Iāve only been on this platform for maybe a week, and Iāve already blocked a dozen instances/communities. Not interested in extremism.
I joined Reddit in 2011, it was great. I joined Lemmy after the API price changes meant I couldnāt use my favorite app anymore. Lemmy at that time was a lot like early Reddit. It changed at break neck speed. I guess thatās just the times weāre in now. Everyone in their tribes and if youāre not part of their narrowly defined tribe, youāre the enemy.
I can get mad at Amazon and Supreme Court at the same time, but not for this. Having uniform requirements is reasonable thing to do, especially for customer facing employees.
why?
Because business is about making money by providing best services. Having dress code is part of it.
I fear for the public education system when someone like you has to ask this question.
Getting mad is not important. Making society better is. And everyone involved is responsible for their own actions.
These people are morons with 8th grade reading comprehension skills.
Come to think of it, maybe they are in fact 8th graders?