thespiritofyamato:

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andwedeliquesce:

Everything changed for Glenn Mack Jr. when his supervisor at Whole Foods found out he’s Muslim.

Glenn had been a rising star at Whole Foods, recruited to work in a prestigious Philadelphia store and even winning a special meeting with the company’s CEO. But when his supervisor found out Glenn would be spending his vacation making pilgrimage to Mecca — for which vacation time was approved months in advance without any questions — his boss suddenly had a change of heart.

“You can choose. It’s either your job or your religion,” Glenn was told. He was subsequently demoted, harassed and wrongfully terminated in November.

Glenn’s not bitter, though — he honestly just wants his job back. So Moein Khawaja, who is working with Glenn to get Whole Foods to do right by him, started a petition on Change.org calling on Whole Foods to reinstate Glenn and create sensitivity training for all staff. Will you sign Moein’s petition calling on Whole Foods to reinstate Glenn Mack, who was harassed and fired for being Muslim, and end religious discrimination in the company?

Whole Foods actually has a zero-tolerance discrimination policy and says on its website that “supporting team member happiness and excellence” is one of its seven core values. So the chronology of Glenn’s mistreatment by the self-styled home for forward-thinking shoppers is like a slap in the face:

Glenn returned from his vacation demoted to part-time status and stripped of all his benefits — even health care. He complained to HR, and got only harassment in response. When he would use his off-the-clock breaks for 5-minute prayers, he was heckled and suffered anti-Muslim comments to the point that he had to pray next to the dumpsters. When Glenn was finally fired, it was for absenteeism — something he had not been approached about before.

Glenn’s mistreatment completely clashes with what Whole Foods says it stands for.  He thinks that maybe that’s why the company has basically chosen to ignore his harassment, perhaps hoping others will, too. But if customers tell Whole Foods that they won’t stand for religious discrimination and that they want Glenn back on the job, the company will have to act.

Please sign Moein Khawaja’s petition to get Glenn Mack’s job back and end religious discrimination at Whole Foods. Stand with Glenn and Moein now to help them win.

I don’t want him to get his old job back, he deserves more than that.

There is also a clear opportunity for a lawsuit here. If Whole Foods doesn’t get their shit together, someone should be making them pay for it. 

Whole Foods was founded by a vicious capitalist libertarian Randroid, who compared labor unions to herpes(!) and had to resign his position as CEO after there was a backlash to an op-ed he wrote blaming America’s obesity epidemic on poor people being “irresponsible” (by not buying food from his store they could ill afford). Islamophobia hardly comes as a shock in such a bigoted and aristocratic corporate culture.

Fuck Wholefoods. Never shop there. I don’t care if they rehire this poor guy with full benefits and backpay and fire every asshole that gave him a hard time. It still doesn’t make them worth shit.

Also, this is Ron Pauls America, people. It’s the America where we won’t let the state tell you who you can or can’t worship, but not you’re employer.