Whole Foods Workers Punished Over BLM Masks Lose Bias Claims (1)

Amazon.com Inc. and Whole Foods Market Inc. workers lack discrimination claims based on a work policy prohibiting them from wearing face masks or other attire bearing Black Lives Matter messaging because they acknowledge the rule applies regardless of a worker’s race, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday.

The decision dismisses the race bias allegations of all 28 lead plaintiffs in the proposed class action under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 27 of whom work or worked for Whole Foods, an Amazon subsidiary. They and Alice Tisme, who is a Prime shopper at a Whole Foods in Cambridge, ...