Whole Foods employees in Westlake protest over Black Lives Matter masks
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SEATTLE — More than a dozen Whole Foods employees in Westlake are refusing to work after they said the company wouldn’t let them wear masks with a Black Lives Matter message.
Shoppers at the Westlake Whole Foods were greeted with a very familiar message Friday night.
Outside the store, protesters shouted, “Black Lives Matter!”
“It’s not a political statement,” a worker told KIRO 7. “It is just a fact. Black lives matter and black lives are important right now. They need to be the center of the conversation.”
Protesters said they’ll be back in front of Whole Foods tomorrow and for as long as it takes for them to be allowed to wear their Black Lives Matter masks.
Whole Foods said it offered at least one employee a different mask to wear, but they refused.
The company said employees who don’t follow its dress code won’t be allowed to work this weekend.