Kroger sued for allegedly firing workers
who refused to wear rainbow symbol
NBC News,
by
Sakshi Venkatraman
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/17/2020 3:53:48 PM
Kroger, one of the country's largest supermarket chains, is being sued in federal court after two former employees claimed they were wrongfully terminated for refusing to wear an apron with a rainbow symbol. The ex-employees, who identify as Christian, cited religious objections in their refusal to wear what they believed was an "endorsement of the LGBTQ community," according to the lawsuit. The complaint was filed Monday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Brenda Lawson, 72, and Trudy Rickerd, 57, who both worked at a Kroger store in Conway, Arkansas, for several years before being fired last spring
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mathman 9/17/2020 4:01:35 PM (No. 543891)
Thought Control. You must be PC or you don't work here.
YOU WILL SUPPORT LBGTX or else.
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I hope they win and receive a large settlement!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 9/17/2020 4:24:54 PM (No. 543914)
I don't shop at Kroeger. The service is awful and the ones near us are not pleasant to go inside.
4 people like this.
The Marxist version of pride - it's compulsory.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/17/2020 4:36:17 PM (No. 543921)
Good.
Make dem pay.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
belwhatter 9/17/2020 4:48:34 PM (No. 543931)
Kroeger bought out our west coast chain of Fred Meyer stores, which are still fondly referred to as Freddie's. Thus is the first obvious dabbling in political correctness, so Kroeger better look out that they don't push their luck any further. You are a grocery store for heaven's sake. Just work at being good at that, because we shoppers can be very fickle when the occasion arises.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 9/17/2020 5:29:39 PM (No. 543965)
Have been making it through the BigBadBug crisis by ordering food delivered from Kroger and Publix. Guess I'll just use Publix from now on.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 9/17/2020 5:33:27 PM (No. 543971)
We are in a suburb of Dallas, and Kroger is one of our best chain grocery stores----either large and new superstore or kept like new older but large store. We shop there multiple times per week and have never observed employees wearing rainbow insignia. Having said that, I hope the lawsuit against them is won. Apparently they have a legitimate case, although the details from the Kroger point of view have not been released. Politics should not be exhibited by employees of any public store.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 9/17/2020 5:33:41 PM (No. 543972)
Kroger isn't around here, but we used to shop there in Fla...simple fix. All Christians stop shopping at Kroger.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 9/17/2020 5:48:12 PM (No. 543989)
Kroger pulls this nonsense periodically. My stepfather worked there. In the 80s he was required to wear a golf shirt with a "Care Bears" logo like an IZOD shirt with the alligator. He responded by wearing the shirt, but wearing his pin-on name plate "Grabau" directly over the Care Bears logo, obscuring it completely.
There are just some things one does not ask macho Italian-Americans to wear! His father, long since dead, was a "mercenary" engine mechanic for the AVG in China. The Flying Tigers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 9/17/2020 6:37:16 PM (No. 544017)
The rainbow symbol can easily be construed as speech. What prevents these companies from just shutting up?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
janjan 9/17/2020 7:20:11 PM (No. 544039)
Employers need to stop stop stop pushing political, social or religious beliefs on their employees. That is not their job or what they are there for. It’s just going to cost them more and more in out of court settlements and they will lose customers. Terrible business decision.
10 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 9/17/2020 9:57:35 PM (No. 544101)
I spend a lot of time in our local Krogers, and can honestly say I never saw any Queerorainbow (stolen from God as his sign of no more floods..a pox on the queeros)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 9/17/2020 11:11:48 PM (No. 544119)
This is bull. Everyone has a choice to support a cause, but should not be fired or critized because they don’t.
Kroger can say goodbye.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/17/2020 11:45:55 PM (No. 544135)
Degenerate homos have NO right to co-opt the symbol that God gave all mankind as His promise to never again destroy degenerate mankind with a flood. The degenerate gender-confused people sicken me.
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Can't you just sell groceries and stay out of the woods ? Personally, I don't care what you do in your personal time, just don't involve the rest of US. No politics. No sexual preference. Just groceries.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 9/18/2020 12:17:26 PM (No. 544672)
The rainbow is a PROMISE to never flood the Earth again (Genesis 8:21.) The LGBTQ movement has hijacked the meaning. So I'd attach the words "God's Promise" to the rainbow and continue wearing the apron and see what Kroger management would say then. If they fire me after THAT I'd own Kroger.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/18/2020 4:10:19 PM (No. 544888)
Conway, like central Arkansas, strives to be an island of blue in a sea of red. It calls itself the “City of Colleges,” if that gives insight to their political spoutings.
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I really doubt any Islamic employees were fired for the same reason.