Trump urges Goodyear tire boycott after report company bars political attire

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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for a boycott of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co following a local news report in Kansas that the company ...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for a boycott of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co following a local news report in Kansas that the company has deemed political attire including that of the Trump campaign unacceptable for the workplace.

The company is the largest provider of tires to new vehicles in the United States. Goodyear brand tires were on 24 per cent of new vehicles in the United States in 2018, according to Tire Business, an industry publication. Trump's tweet followed a news report by WIBW, a local CBS affiliate television station, about a Goodyear training session from the company's Ohio corporate headquarters about political attire presented at a Goodyear plant in Topeka, Kansas.The WIBW report cited a photograph that it said was of a slide from a Goodyear employee from a presentation listing acceptable and unacceptable workplace attire.

 

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