Workers at a Cambridge Whole Foods are approaching a week of persistent walkouts after several employees were sent home last Wednesday for wearing Black Lives Matter…
Workers at a Cambridge Whole Foods are approaching a week of persistent walkouts after several employees were sent home last Wednesday for wearing Black Lives Matter face masks.
In a statement shared with The Boston Globe Monday, the employees at the River Street store in Cambridgeport demanded that the Amazon-owned supermarket chain “take real procedural action to join the anti-racist, Black Lives Matter movement” and provide “the freedom for all Whole Foods employees to explicitly support Black lives.”
The group also shared a call-to-action online Tuesday asking all Whole Foods team members to continuously wear Black Lives Matter masks starting Tuesday. The statement notes that while the company brands itself as supporting the movement, management at the supermarket still forbids workers from showing solidarity with it.
