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Whole Foods Claims Employees Wearing BLM Masks Biolates 1A Rights
Brietbart ^ | Jan 9, 2022 | Paul Bois

Posted on 01/09/2022 8:28:27 PM PST by 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.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: 0wrongforum; amazon; biolates; blacklivesmatter; blm; blmmasks; brietbart; chat; chatforum; copyandpaste; drunkpost; fakeheadline; faketitle; ifeelbiolated; jeffbezos; learnhowtopost; nlrb; paulbois; wholefoods
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To: jcon40

Sorry I didn’t see the apology!

I will now biolate out of the discussion.


21 posted on 01/09/2022 9:20:00 PM PST by Jayster (Legalize Marijuana )
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To: jcon40
Actually "Biolate", while being just a typo, is a good new word for this era, just not this story.

Viruses, some shots, and bacteria "biolate" my body.

"Biologically violate".

22 posted on 01/09/2022 9:36:30 PM PST by Mogger
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To: jcon40
“We’re worried that it’s leaning toward a more super-corporate, you’re-just-another-cog-in-the-machine kind of employee situation.”

He who pays the fiddler calls the tune.

Welcome to reality, cupcake. Suck it up.

23 posted on 01/09/2022 9:38:41 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: caww

10 employers normally have that right. This particular NLRB region apparently considers wearing a BLM button to be converted activity regarding working conditions, which is ridiculous.


24 posted on 01/09/2022 9:43:39 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: jcon40

They are learning welfare recipients and radical leftists are not Whole Foods Customers.

If I see “woke” - I immediately leave and never spend a penny there again.


25 posted on 01/09/2022 9:47:03 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Lurker

Kind of pathetic, that statement....like wearing a “message t-shirt” says anything about your”self”, than just dressing like a normal person. Work is not about expressing yourself. It’s only about doing a job you were hired to do, and getting paid for it......by your employer.


26 posted on 01/09/2022 9:47:31 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: jcon40

C’mon man, that’s just a bunch of Lets Go Brandon malarkey.


27 posted on 01/09/2022 10:12:18 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: Mogger

Dass juss raciss, dindu nuffin, biolated noooo body.


28 posted on 01/09/2022 10:15:55 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: Mogger

Great accidental idea.

Let’$ be 50 / 50 partner$$$


29 posted on 01/09/2022 10:16:25 PM PST by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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Freewheelin' mixed-bag kinda place.

30 posted on 01/09/2022 10:18:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: jcon40

So devil’s advocate here.... Free enterprise means free enterprise. I believe all independent corporations should have their own say in how they run their business. What you wear, what you do, what you say even if it can be traced you are an employee, that is all free market. Even if they want to demand the jab, that is their choice in a free market. The idea is either the labor market will tolerate these corporate demands or they are forced into a situation where they must revise policies or be short handed.

That being said, any employee screaming about being fired for their MAGA hat should be rallying against anyone being fired for a BLM hat.

The hypocrisy on both sides blows my mind. You either agree with free enterprise or believe free speech reaches beyond the purview of government and private employers should also be subject to such. This should never be conditioned upon the political view expressed.

Let me be VERY clear this is not a statement on any government mandates, OSHA standards, or any influence outside the natural market. Again, this is about a dual hypocrisy which is what kills both sides credibility.


31 posted on 01/09/2022 10:45:25 PM PST by Dagny Muriel (NEVER TRUST what you read, hear, or see. NO one in power is trustworthy. Follow the $ for the truth.)
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To: Dagny Muriel
If you want your maga hat be OK with the BLM hat with blue hair and nose piercings. Otherwise just be cool with it being a corporate issue and either buy or don't from that company
32 posted on 01/09/2022 10:48:54 PM PST by Dagny Muriel (NEVER TRUST what you read, hear, or see. NO one in power is trustworthy. Follow the $ for the truth.)
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To: jcon40
I hate to Biolate anyone...

I like Biology..and Earth Science...

Kinda think I know about weather and such...

For sure know how to hunt and process my game.

But I know nothing about this Biolate thing....

Is it a drink?

33 posted on 01/09/2022 10:51:04 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: jcon40
“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.

Yeah, but that was back when Ward Cleaver would still sit in his easy chair, wearing a tie and cardigan, while smoking his pipe.

Times have changed.

Regards,

34 posted on 01/09/2022 10:51:29 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
This particular NLRB region apparently considers wearing a BLM button to be converted activity regarding working conditions, which is ridiculous.

Huh?!

Regards,

35 posted on 01/09/2022 10:53:57 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: jcon40

“When a lot of us started working at Whole Foods back in the day, it was a place where you could wholly be yourself”

Oh, please. That was almost certainly never true. If “wholly being yourself” meant showing up at work drunk or having a Hitler tattoo or smoking hash at the checkout stand, I’m guessing that even the wonderful “old” Whole Foods drew some lines...


36 posted on 01/09/2022 10:54:13 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Osage Orange
Is it a drink?

Contains electrolytes!

Regards,

37 posted on 01/09/2022 10:54:57 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: jcon40

Just change the name of Whole Foods to BLM Foods. Problem solved. /s


38 posted on 01/09/2022 11:01:58 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: Lurker

GenY and GenZ (probably)


39 posted on 01/09/2022 11:59:32 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Mogger

That’s hugh and series!


40 posted on 01/10/2022 12:01:31 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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