Continued, Linguistic, Cultural Discrimination!

Please see article link below. We cannot have this discrimination continually marginalize our Gente! For some uppity, big-box, organic food company that pretends to embrace diversity to go on and discriminate against their employees among linguistic lines – the second most spoken language in the US, and the foremost spoken language in the world! This is disgusting!:

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3058120.shtml?cat=516

Posted at: 06/06/2013 8:53 AM
By: The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Two employees at a Whole Foods store in Albuquerque say they were suspended after complaining about being told they couldn’t speak Spanish to each other while on the job.

Bryan Baldizan says he and a female employee were suspended for a day last month after they wrote a letter following a meeting with a manager who told them Spanish was not allowed during work hours.

He says Whole Foods officials told them about company policy and issued the suspensions.

Ben Friedland, Whole Foods Market Rocky Mountain Region Executive Marketing Coordinator, says the Austin, Texas-based company believes in “having a uniform form of communication” for a safe working environment.

Friedland says company policy states that all English speaking workers must speak English to customers and other employees while on the clock.