Goodyear Training Aligns with Black Lives Matters and Rebukes Police Support

A picture was leaked of a training session at a Goodyear plant in Topeka, KS on Thursday, August 18, 2020.  It shows a slide from the presentation outlining their "zero tolerance" policy.  On it you'll find references to BLM and LGBTQ are acceptable, but references to Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter or MAGA are unacceptable. I reached out to Goodyear, via their Corporate phone number [330.796.2121].  After being on hold for over thirty minutes, I was able to speak with a customer service representative.  The representative was aware of the picture because she had fielded other calls about it.  She indicated the headquarters at Akron, OH were looking into it.  She seemed genuinely surprised and told me she had not had any training like that where she was.   When I asked for clarification of whether Goodyear still contracts the tires for the police departments, she assured me they did indeed.  I said, "Well this isn't going to go over well here."  She agreed and said, "It won't go over well here either!" After doing some local inquiries in Topeka, I was able to confirm this was a true picture of a very real training that workers at the Topeka Goodyear plant have been required to go through.  I was told the local union (307) had endorsed the training, but has since (as of today) begun backpedaling over it.  I have not gotten an official statement of that, but a worker there indicated that was his experience as an employee and union member there.