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.

  • Im14abeer@midwest.socialEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    You’re aware there is a video of Floyd’s murder right? He’s not ODing, and neither autopsy supports that conclusion.

    https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-george-floyd-autopsy-new-892530421961

    You know what there is evidence supporting though? Derick Chauvin had a history of problematic encounters with other arrestees. Even if George Floyd was a “thug” this was an extrajudicial murder. Cops don’t get to be judge, jury or executioner.

    • freeindv@monyet.cc
      12·
      1 year ago

      He literally had OD levels of fentanyl and meth in his system, a half chewed speedball pill was found in the cop car he was in, and he had eaten all the drugs he had on his person in prior arrest videos.

      He wasn’t killed by anyone but himself

      • Im14abeer@midwest.socialEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Of course your right, two medical examiners are wrong. He was just about to drop dead from the “overdose levels” of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes. George Floyd was no saint, but that doesn’t make his death any less of a murder.

        • freeindv@monyet.cc
          12·
          1 year ago

          He was just about to drop dead from the “overdose levels” of drugs in his system before that cop knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes

          Question for you. At what point did Floyd start saying he couldn’t breathe?

          A: while he was still getting into the cop car, before he asked to lie on the ground? B: as he was being detained on the ground?

          Hint: the answer is A