Goodyear Tire company is under fire this week for a listing of acceptable and unacceptable symbols or attire in the workplace. President Trump has railed against the inclusion of MAGA hats as “unacceptable” and called for a boycott. I do not agree. I think it is appropriate to ban political endorsements or symbols in a business but there is a legitimate concern over what is deemed “acceptable.” The touchstone of free speech protections is content neutrality and Goodyear appears to be enforcing a viewpoint preference. The question is whether, as a private business, it has an obligation to be neutral.
The story went viral after a Goodyear employee shared a slide from a recent company diversity training session at a plant in Topeka, Kan., which showed two categories: Acceptable and Unacceptable. The acceptable items included Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride (LGBT). The unacceptable items included Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA and politically affiliated slogans or material.
The MAGA reference is what set off President Trump who declared “Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES—They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less“(This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).”
While stressing that the list came from a diversity training session, the company did not deny the line drawn between these groups and causes. The company released as statement that:
“Goodyear is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where all of our associates can do their best in a spirit of teamwork. As part of this commitment, we do allow our associates to express their support on racial injustice and other equity issues but ask that they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of political campaigning for any candidate or political party as well as other similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of equity issues.”
I get the policy on barring “forms of advocacy” and businesses have the right to impose limitations, an issue that we discussed on the NFL kneeling controversy. However, the list does not seem to follow a needed bright-line rule to avoid the appearance of bias.
The inclusion of Black Lives Matter but not Blue Lives Matter raises the most obvious concern over a preference for political viewpoints. There are some people who support the call that Black Lives Matter but do not support the organization. Others support both the Black Lives Matter as well as Blue Lives Matter. I understand the view of many people that we need to focus on BLM to address problems of racial justice in our system. But it is a viewpoint preference.
In my view, Goodyear has a right to limiting viewpoints expressed in their stores. For example, a clothing store may want to espouse environmental causes. In taking such an approach, there is an obvious risk of boycotts and backlash but I do not believe that there is a legal requirement to evenly apply such rules in a private space. Even with government property classified as a non-public forum, content-based speech limitations need only be reasonable and viewpoint-neutral. Perry Educ. Ass’n v. Perry Local Educators’ Ass’n, 460 U.S. 37, 46 (1983). In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled in Grayned v. City of Rockford that in determining the time, place, and manner limitations on speech “[the] crucial question is whether the manner of expression is basically incompatible with the normal activity of a particular place at a particular time.”
In this dispute, Goodyear is allowing some advocacy while barring other forms of advocacy. However, this is a private space (albeit open to the public). The first amendment applies to government limitations on free speech. Thus, Goodyear is likely to face economic and political consequences rather than legal consequences for its policy. Goodyear reportedly stocks fell six percent after the Trump call for a boycott.
This news just in regarding the Goodyear Blimp:
https://www.thehulltruth.com/dockside-chat/887382-goodyear-tires-suck-how-do-they-stay-business.html
REGARDING ABOVE:
This is one of those posts from a charming Trumper ‘discreetly’ threatening violence towards a company that annoyed Donald Trump. It’s funny how this goes. Yesterday this poster probably had no particular feelings towards the Goodyear company. But because Trump is angry at Goodyear, this poster hints that someone should sabotage the Goodyear blimp.
As one of the “deeper” thinkers on this blog, perhaps you could solve the following axiom?
6 x Set Warner = 3 x Wit
So intelligent that your sense of humor was completely overtaken. The above post was representative of their current stock price.
Liberals see through an odd filter. Seem to see “That’s Offensive” everywhere and about everything.
I’ve been a loyal Goodyear customer, that just ended.
Diversity is an American Cancer.
You should have just sold tires.
You’re on my list of what and who I won’t buy from.
Pirelli’s quality has fallen way off too. Right now I like some of the Korean tire makers. Cheaper than Yokohama
The best tires for racing are all made in America. Flyover USA
It is standard practice to have a dress code for factory workers. This is a bunch of fragility stirred up by the likes of JT under the guise of “free speech”. What a load of garbage.
We’re on the cusp of losing 200,000 US citizens to the Trump plague. Shouldn’t we be concerned with matters of life and death?
What a bunch of victim ninnies.
That’s the right wing for ya. Whiners and complainers to the bitter end.
It is standard practice to have a dress code for factory workers. This is a bunch of fragility stirred up by the likes of JT under the guise of “free speech”. What a load of garbage
You might try reading his argument before commenting on it.
Oh, LAUGH,
The “China Flu, 2020” came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.
The “China Flu, 2020” was deliberately released.
The “China Flu, 2020” was designed to assist the communists (liberals, progressives, socialist, democrats, RINOs) in America.
The “China Flu, 2020” was designed to cause a pandemic which would profoundly and adversely impact the U.S. economy and, thereby, the 2020 re-election campaign of President Donald Trump, which was on course to achieve an historic and inexorable landslide victory in November.
The “China Flu, 2020” was designed to stop the “rebellion” by residents of Hong Kong, retard China’s economic and military adversaries around the globe and allow China to forge ahead with its plans of global, communist domination, while causing only “acceptable losses” among China’s bloated domestic population of 1.4 billion people.
I wrote the following on August 26, 2019 at 9:32am in a comment over on Ethics Alarms after witnessing Democrats apparently advocating for a recession for about a month. The advocating trend was bothersome to me.
Then magically came a pandemic began in China on August 6, 2019 (according to the NYT COVID-19 timeline) and then it came to the USA in early 2020 and magically there was a followup recession for the United States economy. I completely understand that Correlation ≠ Causation, in fact I harp about it all the time on discussion forums, but what a timely coincidence for the Democrats.
We’re on the cusp of losing 200,000 US citizens to the Trump plague.
Meh…..too bad it isn’t far higher like 200,000,000. that would take care of trolls like you who don’t have enough brains to use a different email address when responding to your own blog comment on this forum
Hey, Wuhan Virus…..please take care of Olaf for us, huh?
Thanks!
“Diversity is an American Cancer” My guess is you never heard of “E PLURIBUS UNUM”
Fish head:
“Diversity is an American Cancer” My guess is you never heard of “E PLURIBUS UNUM”
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My guess is your Latin’s rusty. After the “many” we become “one.” That’s the opposite of diversity. That’s singularity.
“DIWORSIFICATION”
“Distrust diversifications, which usually turn out to be diworseifications.”
– Peter Lynch, One Up Wall Street, 1989
Turley wrote, “The first amendment applies to government limitations on free speech. Thus, Goodyear is likely to face economic and political consequences rather than legal consequences for its policy.”
If they had chosen the exact opposite of what they chose (unacceptable items Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride (LGBT); acceptable items Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA) the social justice cancel culture warriors would have their way with them and I’d bet a weeks salary that they would cave into the social justice warriors and grovel with a public apology.
It’s currently politically incorrect and publicly considered straight up heresy to humanity to opposes anything that the political march of the modern social justice warriors hive mind supports, their intimidation power across our society is rapidly growing.
I forgot to say in my comment above that I agree with Turley’s quote that I quoted before I went off on my tangent. I completely agree that “The first amendment applies to government limitations on free speech. Thus, Goodyear is likely to face economic and political consequences rather than legal consequences for its policy.”
they are powerful but the question is always how to gain sufficient power to counteract them and roll it back
if we just concede defeat then it’s all over.
it’s very clear there is one simple thing we can all do to fight back at all the forces vectoring in on us:
VOTE TRUMP COME NOVEMBER 2020
and turn out everybody you know to vote too
ALL political symbols or attire, including BLM and LGBT, should be unacceptable in the workplace and in historically nonpartisan activities such as sports. Enough already with the fill-in-the-blank victim and political crap.
“BLM is acceptable; MAGA is not.”
My employer gets to choose which political acronym I can wear? A tire company? A razor manufacturer? I just want a job, not a master. I don’t want to have to join a cult to get a paycheck.
Urinalysis for the mind is so Orwellian. Stop, just stop.
Where does the Turley hall monitor stand on #Goyaaway? That time when supporting a sitting POTUS prompted a boycott.
Ban, or allow. Period. That is why gravity is such an excellent teacher: it’s consistent.
I absolutely HATE the way President Trump punches down like this from the Oval Office, it’s unpresidential! This is where his unethical loose cannon mouth gets him into trouble. Calling for a boycott from the office of the President of the United States is inappropriate.
That said…
What Goodyear is doing is straight up bigotry and they are in a position of power being the employer that makes this a prejudicial abuse of power, it’s in-your-face suppression of certain kinds of thinking and chills free speech, it’s unethical and immoral! If they are going to ban some then they need to ban ALL of it or they will suffer the what ever consequences come their way for their choices. If some, or all, consumers choose to boycott Goodyear because of this obvious abuse of power I have absolutely no problem with that; this is the kind of moral bankruptcy that consumers should consider when choosing who they purchase from.
President Trump, shut the hell up and stop punching down; let the consumers make their own choices and speak with their dollars in the manner in which they choose.
Steve, I agree with you. Trump needs to shut up and let others carry his water (or expose and criticize particular causes).
Edicts by the General Secretary aside, actual Americans love President Trump for speaking, fighting and leading from the front, in the actual American existential battle against the global, communist Deep Deep State.
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“YOU TAKE THE FRONT LINE WHEN THERE IS DANGER”
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
– Nelson Mandela
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1st Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
George,
You included the 1st Amendment for some reason in your reply to me, are you implying something with that inclusion?
Out with it George.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
– Mark Twain
That’s a fun little saying used primarily to insult others, especially on modern discussion forums, but Mark Twain was a rhetorical coward. Apathy does not work and it’s the kind of thinking that has allowed so many “stupid” people to gain power. I choose to stand my ground with facts and intellect at the top of the hole challenging their stupidity allowing them to continue to dig themselves deeper into their own mental abyss.
Apathy Fertilizes A Breeding Ground For Stupidity
P.S. You completely failed to answer my question and instead dragged the freaking goalposts to the parking lot with your deflection.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
– Mark Twain
Someone recently commented on here that he stabbed his wife, cut her into pieces, put her body parts in the freezer, and admires his feat much like he admires his comments on here. So there is that to consider about “George”
And I responded that my wife is surely alive and well and providing me with a second vote every election.
She loves me so!
She hung the Trump flag in her She Shed.
Thank God for women’s suffrage!
Trump is more clever than you suspect. Goodyear likely has been harmed financially by Trump’s fair trade initiatives and they want to get rid of him. This is why the likes of they and so many big corporations such as Walmart, not to mention the likes of Geo Soros fund and elevate BLM. They think BLM will help get rid of Trump. simple as that. follow the money.
As soon as you reject the obvious lies that come out of BLM mouths and begin to see them as paid mercenaries engaged in an adverse PR campaign contra Trump— and people like you and me that might vote for him in November– voila, it all makes sense
BLM is the most clever PR operation in favor of multinational global corporations ever. That so many self professed “marxists” have been enlisted in their efforts is one of the most amusing deceptions of our time. It is funny, if you can put aside how tragic it is that the big cities are now ruined, and the even more scary thought, that their stunt may work
if we fail to turn out the vote for Trump in november. it will all come down to that
Mr. Kurtz wrote, “Goodyear likely has been harmed financially by Trump’s fair trade initiatives and they want to get rid of him.”
Hogwash!
Businesses like Goodyear really don’t give a damn who’s in the White House because it won’t make much of a difference to their market share, all they have to do is adjust their operations based on taxes, regulations and sales and the money keeps flowing; where, if the social justice warriors get their cancel culture claws on them their business could be destroyed. I’m guessing some social justice snowflake employees complained about a fellow employees displaying MAGA, Blue Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter items calling the displays racist or something along those lines and Goodyear management caved in and is now virtue signaling to the hoards of irrational social justice warriors trying to keep them at bay.
So if your choices were to pander to the irrational hordes and the business survives no matter who’s in the White House, or oppose the hordes and take a chance that the business closes its doors and goes bankrupt; what would you choose?
Yes this is about the bottom dollar but not in the way you’re claiming.
Goodyear’s problem now is that their virtue signaling to the hordes of irrational social justice warriors is now public and they’re facing a different kind of backlash for their pandering. I’m pretty darn certain that this becoming public and the subsequent reaction didn’t come up in their pandering planning meeting, they were focuses on the immediate problem – social justice warriors. Think immediate cause and effect. businesses don’t do things like this because of a presidential election, they do it because of an immediate “threat”.
Businesses don’t do shit like this without cause, their selective banning choice is the effect.
Steve, we would need an economic analysis to know whether or not the one factor or the other were more significant, either in terms of the bottom line, or in the managerial decision making process. but we would need time framed analysis for that, too. this information is not available to us, so it’s speculation
I speculate, that the SJW people do not command as much control over retail sales as they pretend. in some sectors, their influence may be totally insignificant
but tariffs on imported goods increase prices for consumers who have less to spend if they are passed on by companies, the companies face pricing choices about how much of tariffs to pass on, or not. but when there is a cost increase for tariffs, then it will eat into something, maybe many things all at once. sales, profits, market share maybe.
So I asked google, “where does goodyear make tires?”
answer:
“It is the sole tire supplier for NASCAR series. Goodyear was the first global tire manufacturer to enter China when it invested in a tire manufacturing plant in Dalian in 1994.”
I think this gives some support for my hypothesis. They were early users of slave labor in China. Dalian is in Manchuria, by the way. Chinese call it “Dongbei”
There is no counterbalance to leftist boycotts. The left boycotts because they have no problem using whatever power they have in this way. Success leads to more and more success so it is vital that something counterbalance those boycotts. Had this stuff been stopped early on we wouldn’t be seeing it today.
What counterbalance do you have to offer?
Allan wrote, “There is no counterbalance to leftist boycotts.”
Be honest Allan; a boycott is a consumer response to the company what the social justice warriors are doing is not boycotting, they are intimidating and destroying.
Allan wrote, “Had this stuff been stopped early on we wouldn’t be seeing it today.”
I’ve been talking about that very thing for over 10 years and in my blog for well over a year now.
Apathy Fertilizes A Breeding Ground For Stupidity
Hordes of Anti-Social “Stupid” People Stomp Civility Into Submission!
That’s just two of my blog posts that touch on the topic of what’s happening to the “society’s building blocks”, which happens to be the primary (not the only) focus of my blog. There are more blog post, feel free to browse and comment (as long as you follow my rules).
Trump was talking boycott but I agree this was leftist intimidation of Goodyear.
My question still stands, “What counterbalance do you have to offer?”
Unlike DC Sponges, our President knows how to Fight Back. Before he was elected, no one gave a flying flip for the real middle class. President Trump says what we think. After Obama’s “This could be my son” BS, we were drawn to Donald J. Trump with the force of a thousand injustices.
If we scratched the surface we might find that GOODYEAR probably is suffering from Trump’s fair trade agenda and that’s why they want to get rid of him.
Maybe they need stuff imported from China, which is being taxed by tariffs, or maybe they think they can sell more tires in China, or maybe they have potential investors in China. Maybe a little bit of all that.
They hate Trump because of money
Follow the money
Trump is the hero of the average American. Never forget the mass media are owned by global multinational corporations that hate him too. He’s been sticking it to all of them
Thank God someone with power finally did!
I suspect the source of this is s daisy chain of principal agent problems. In essence, it’s people in communications and HR doing this under the nose of a sleeping senior management. The employees responsible should be identified and fired.
One wretched thing that’s happened of late is political struggle invading every other realm of life. It’s reasonable for a company in this day and age to tell their employees to leave it at the door. Enforcing political orthodoxies as a rogue project of some twitette in HR should be absolutely unacceptable. We sell tires, right?
You realize this is just the way liberals ‘think’. Their (often obnoxious) speech is civic participation. Everyone else’s is aggression.
It is wretched.
HR is always on the watch for things that can get corporate sued. Not just for explicit racial discrimination but for big employers, ie disparate treatment, but “disparate impact”
the defense against that is a sytem of head counting that amounts to affirmative action. but also, rules that prohibit harassment.
what is harassment? Here we get into “SPEECH CODES’
this affects on the job talk. for everybody. from tire manufacturing supervisors, to academics, to lawyers
we are all “UNDER THE KNIFE” OF SPEECH CODES NOW
civil rights laws which were interpreted to allow lawsuits not only for disparate treatment, but also disparate impact, are at the genesis of what made “SPEECH CODES’ a viable tool for reprogramming American society by the anti-white forces.
I say anti-white because although it affects a lot of other people, the direct target of this, was the white american population and its habits and customs and thoughts and beliefs and culture and indeed our political choices and future capacities. the goal was to atomize the white population into as small fragments as possible
not as racists often say, to replace us, no. just to atomize us and reduce us to the same politically impotent level that all the other minorities had.
as against who is the key question now. I contend, as against globalists. The finanical elites of multinational corporations, who are proud donors to BLM; and to the early financiers of BLM such as Geo Soros; who all share certain short term objective of GET TRUMP. Why ? I argue, for one key reason. They want the “Free Trade” back, fast! and they want that mass migration that trump is against too. and more beyond that. But the salient financial dimension between all this sort of social conflict now is this.
It would be almost inconceivable to the average activist marching alongside BLM into another “peaceful protest,” or more likely, another lawless affray, that they were working for the interests of the richest men on Earth. And yet that is precisely what I contend.
https://corporate.goodyear.com/en-US/media/news/goodyear-expands-tire-factory-in-china.html
“PULANDIAN, China, November 2, 2016 — The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company today announced it has broken ground on a $485 million expansion of its state-of-the-art tire factory in Pulandian, Dalian, China. Goodyear Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Richard J. Kramer took part in a ceremony with Lu Lin, deputy mayor of Dalian, China.
When completed in 2020, the expansion will increase the plant’s capacity by about 5 million tires a year, enabling Goodyear to meet the strong and growing market demand for premium, large-rim-diameter consumer tires in China and the Asia Pacific region. By 2020, Goodyear expects tires with rim diameters of 17 inches or greater to account for nearly 60 percent of its replacement tire sales volume in China.
“This investment in our Pulandian factory speaks to our long-term strategy of pursuing sustainable growth in the Asia Pacific region and increasing Goodyear’s presence in high-value segments of the global tire market that are growing at rates above the total industry where we can capture the value of our brand,” Kramer said. “The city of Dalian has been supportive of our developments here, and we look forward to continuing this fruitful partnership.”
“Goodyear’s latest investment in Pulandian strengthens our presence in China. As one of our most important and key growth markets, our global brand and innovative product portfolio in China will gives us a competitive edge,” said Chris Delaney, president, Asia Pacific.
Goodyear was the first global tire manufacturer to enter China when it invested in a tire manufacturing plant in Dalian in 1994.”
OUCH! NO WONDER THEY HATE TRUMP AND WANT TO LEVERAGE BLM’S CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION. GREEDY CORPORATE BULLIES OF AMERICA!
VOTE TRUMP 2020 AND NEVER BUY GOODYEAR’S FAULTY AND DANGEROUS TIRES AGAIN
Just think how many things that the Left has boycotted being with french fries, chic filet home depot the list is endless. And Trump does it and the sky is falling
I had a good year so far financially. So I went and bought four tires and bought Goodyear brand. Bad Markets Matter. Good Markets Matter.
Just another sycophant business! lickspitter also describes them! or the more common descriptor, toady! Remember their stances when you shop.
BLM is a Marxist organization. They qualify as political. I am not sure how Blue Live Matters is political.
BLM is a paid band of mercenary racketeers who are operating a 3 months long planned insurrection to destabilize our country, and bully and harass people into accepting whatever the Democrats put forward in the upcoming election.
They were paid to do this by a constellation of donors which includes at this time, many multinational corporations, yes, but also Geo Soros who for all his marxist viewpoints, is essentially, the very type of the international capitalist financier and destroyer of nations, who seeks ever more globalism, ie, free trade not fair trade, more mass migration ie free movement of labor, more propaganda ie free flow of information, all of which they intend to accompish by destroying nation states and what remains of sovereignty and the international Westphalian system.
Hence: BLM are mercenaries and they work for globalism the agenda of the richest of the rich.
They are very much a wolf in sheeps clothing, pretending to be the friends of common black folks. Nothing could be further from the truth. But of course they have tricked people into thinking that a person like me can’t say a word about it simply because I am white. WHich is the crassest and most simplistic form of racism imaginable. But, yes, that is one of their many successful ploys of late.
And I share my suggestion nonetheless
So, how does one get on this payroll?
I just returned a set of four and refused to pay for dismounting. The sign said 100% satisfactory and I wasn’t.
Goodyear just lost a large portion of their customers.
Ohio just lost a lot of jobs.
Alhysteria O’crazio Corkheads Loses 25,000 Amazon Jobs For Her District
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Many took exception to the “victory lap” the freshman congresswoman made and pointed to the math of the jobs that were still lost from her battle with Amazon.
“Another day, another viral misleading tweet from AOC. Amazon is leasing office space in Manhattan for 1,500 employees, which is 6% of the 25,000 jobs its HQ2 in Queens (her district) was supposed to add,” The Daily Caller’s Peter Hasson said.
“AOC could have had 25,000 jobs in her district from Amazon, but now, Amazon is only offering 1,500 jobs using rental space OUTSIDE her district. She’s taking a victory lap for a 94% loss in jobs in NYC and 25,000 job loss in her district. Socialist logic is incredible,” political strategist Caleb Hull wrote.
– Joseph A. Wulfsohn
This is a no brainer. Prohibit all political attire and political behavior, and do not try to let some thru and not others.
If the NFL had done that, things would have gone far better.
Keep in mind that the rest of us in corporate America live by these simple policies.
This is the old, ‘freedom of’ vrs ‘freedom from’, issue. The wearing of a head scarf to illustrate to the world and therefore promote Islam, or any and all other religious garb, is no different from wearing a MAGA hat. To state that outward appearances designed by religion or politics are solely personal is ludicrous. People who wear religious garb, political statements, tattoos, etc are demonstrating outwardly their selves, whoever they may be.
The number one rule at the dinner table is no politics and no religion. Goodyear has dominion at their table. If you don’t like the prescribed table manners then eat somewhere else.
Or the next step is confrontation and faulty tires.
“The wearing of a head scarf to illustrate to the world and therefore promote Islam, or any and all other religious garb, is no different from wearing a MAGA hat.”
Seriously? Displays of religious beliefs are NOT the same as displays of political beliefs because some religions have requirements for how people dress.
I can’t tell if you even believe anything you write.
In a secular society, political beliefs can be as powerful as religious beliefs in a religious society. Often times the political is ingrained within the religious. Given that extreme adherence to a religion and/or political position is more often than not accompanied by an equally extreme ignorance as to the real meaning of either the religion and/or the political; visual statements are more to be found among those who are making a statement outwardly. Again, in a workplace that depends on balance and integration, some one wearing a MAGA hat or a religious garment of a contentious religion, can be and often is disrupting. Like I stated, no politics or religion at the diner table. A workplace is best as a secular society.
Regarding religious garments, in a perfect world where religion is as much dependent on the freedom of individual beliefs as it is on community; where community is resilient and confident enough to cease requiring its members to physically manifest something that is, in essence, completely ethereal; where individual believers are confident enough in their beliefs so as not to require expressing them outwardly thereby placing them as more chosen, closer to, of greater meaning, etc. this conversation would not be taking place. The foundation of every major religion is that it is more than any other. Therein lies the seed for confrontation. The same is so with politics. How will all these tires get rolling if these distractions are there.
Or, you could allow the MAGA hats and the Dump Trump t-shirts and see.
It doesn’t matter. You cannot make workplace rules that violate religious expression, but you can do that for political expression. That’s how it is and that’s what Turley’s article is about.
Goodyear prolly had its wings clipped by the trade restrictions so they hate Trump and want to get rid of him
Thats why so many rich multinational corporations hate Trump and pay BLM for their ongoing insurrection. They want the free trade so they can use the Chinese slave labor to make more money
Simple as that. That’s what side you’re on Isaac. The side of the CCP slavemasters, the side of the richest global multinationals, and their paid mercenaries, the BLM looters and rioters. That’s your guys Isaac. Face it
So, where’s my cheque?
Ha ha, good question Isaac. I don’t think they are sending you one. BLM organizers are paid. At least they get that. Activists have the joy of protest. People who apologize for them may have professional interests such as professors which can be elevated by bootlicking.
but for apologists like you, I suspect, they have played you, they have tricked you, they have exploited your generous liberal nature, they have got you to work for free for interests which actually will come at your expense, not only in your wasted time, but in the impact the policies will have on you in the long run.
You have been suckered, not because you are a bad person, but because, you are a good one.
This is what I believe of many of my Democratic party friends, and I have a lot. In turn, they think I am a cynical curmudgeon, but, usually associate with me anyhow. This is one of the things I like about Democrat rank and file people, they are usually very nice and generous and make good personal friends.
Do you think I could Turley to sue them?
Where my comment at?
Goodyear is not stupid. The company sees which way the country as a whole is moving. Whether anyone likes it or not, the US is definitely taking a list to the left. Maybe it’s a reaction to the extremism of Trump and his Republican enablers. The law of unintended consequences.
The President called for a boycott, not Federal policing efforts. I think that is fine. There is clearly an inequity in the way Goodyear handled their training, and using the bully pulpit instead of trying to use the pen is good restraint. More bully pulpit, less ridiculous laws. The President got the word out, and if you like what Goodyear is doing, you can choose to do business with them. If you do not like Goodyear’s message, you can choose another business to do deal with.
My husband worked 21 years for Goodyear and was constantly harassed for being conservative. The union also flooded the workplace with campaign propaganda for the Democrats during election cycles daily.
Black Tires Matter. Especially for black Wives. They feel they don’t matter because they are married and can’t get their check. An in married partner is a check mate. Not talking chess here.