Twenty workers at the Whole Foods Market in Milford have joined the growing number of protests nationwide against the store’s policies prohibiting clothing items that support the Black Lives Matter movement, despite the company’s own statements in support of it.
The workers staged their protest on the Fourth of July, donning black T-shirts with the phrase “racism has no place here” — a direct quote from one of the company’s own statements — and marching into work as usual.
Instead, all were asked to either leave or change their shirts. Fifteen decided they would rather leave work in protest than change, said Graham Johnson, one of the store employees who helped stage the protest.