TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) — A Goodyear employee released a photo on social media showing their zero-tolerance policy and has caused an uproar as many are calling it not equal.
The photo shown below is of a slide that was presented during Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s diversity training to highlight what is acceptable and unacceptable as part of their zero-tolerance policy, as reported by WIBW News.
Listed as acceptable : Black Lives Matter (BLM), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride.
Listed as unacceptable : Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA Attire, Political Affiliated Slogans or Material.
According to the employee who took the photo, the slide was presented at the Topeka, Kansas plant by an area manager, which originally came from their corporate office located in Akron, Ohio, WIKB News reported.
“If someone wants to wear a BLM shirt in here, then cool. I’m not going to get offended about it. But at the same time, if someone’s not going to be able to wear something that is politically based, even in the farthest stretch of the imagination, that’s discriminatory,” said an employee, under the agreement of anonymity due to fears they could lose their job. “If we’re talking about equality, then it needs to be equality. If not, it’s discrimination.”
Goodyear released this statement in response to the surfacing of the image :
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Hello Mr. Richard J. Kramer of the Goodyear Corp. and other business owners in the U.S.
I believe your company will be is LESS HOT WATER, if you print my “Proposed” retraction of your original H.R. projector slide information that offended a VERY LARGE % of Americans.
There are 2 MAJOR political groups that vote in the USA elections. Goodyear will be destroyed in the court of PUBLIC OPINION by about 50% of Americans; if Goodyear doesn’t STAY NEUTRAL in this Presidential election year of 2020.
Your company makes a VERY GOOD PRODUCT. And it would be bad for business if you don’t clarify, and promote what MOST AMERICANS believe-in, who want to protect ideas that save lives, makes Americans more loving or tolerant of others different in race, religion or politics; for we are all Americans first and foremost, who should love God, self, others and country, in the spirit of unity and peace for all.
ACCEPTABLE:
Black Lives Matter (BLM)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride (LGBT
UNACCEPTABLE
Blue Lives Matter
All Lives Matter
MAGA Attire
Political Affiliated Slogans or Material
A Goodyear Retraction and update
of what their employees can promote in their speech, and clothing attire.
The human resource director for Goodyear
should have listed the below projector slide
submitted by Arthur Trafford
ACCEPTABLE
Black Lives Matter (BLM)
Blue Lives Matter
All Lives Matter
UNACCEPTABLE
No Political Affiliated Slogans or Material
No hate speech written or verbal that attacks another person’s political, religious or cultural views etc. that are different from theirs. And they should receive a WARNING LETTER before termination.
Sincerely,
Arthur Trafford
USA.
Goodyear’s new zero-tolerance policy for a few particular movements is causing a stir online. Earlier this week, a Topeka, Kansas, employee of the tire and rubber company posted a photo shared during a diversity training seminar, NBC 15 reports. The screenshot shows the company’s support for the Black Lives Matter movement and LGBT pride by listing it under an “acceptable” column as part of a “Zero Tolerance” policy slide.