GM CEO Mary Barra Visits Troubled Toledo Transmission Plant
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The Toledo Blade reported earlier this week GM CEO Mary Barra and other top executives made an unannounced visit to the company’s troubled Toledo Transmission Plant where several racist and despicable incidents have occurred since 2017. GM Global Head of Manufacturing Alicia Boler-Davis also joined Barra on the visit where they met with the plant’s 1,722 workers. Both made clear during their meeting that any racism at the factory “would not be tolerated.”
News of these racist incidents occurring broke last year when nine African American employees filed a lawsuit against the automaker for failing to act when a string of racist incidents happened in the spring of 2017. An investigation by the Ohio State Civil Rights Commission ruled “GM engaged in unlawful discriminatory practices”—a conclusion the automaker disagreed with.
The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit last April but amended it in September after the OCRC commission concluded several investigations into the racist allegations. The findings and accusations are disgusting. The OCRC discovered no fewer than three instances where nooses were found in the plant. The OCRC also found incidents of nooses, swastikas, White-Only signs, ethnic slurs, and racial jokes inside the factory.
While combating racism was a crucial part of the trip for the GM executives, it was not the only reason for why they visited. The plant is set to launch two new transmission, and, according to UAW Local 14 President Dennis Earl, Mary Barra and Alicia Boler-Davis were also there to show support for the plant.
However, that doesn’t mean Mary Barra and GM aren’t trying to get to the bottom of the racist incidents. Last month, GM offered a $25,000 reward to anyone who has relevant information about the racist nooses and graffiti discovered in the factory. The company wants to catch whoever is the perpetrator and put a stop to the racism at the factory.
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You’re an idiot. Whether anything is ‘fake’, or a ‘hoax’, it needs to be taken seriously, and investigated. I’m going to assume you’re white. Im going to assume you have something against black individuals who speak up about their experiences. Truth is, parts of the Midwest, are entrenched in racism. This news doesn’t surprise me, as areas of Ohio, and Kentucky are remarkably known to not be friendly to black people.
We all have more in common than what we don’t have. Make America great again? Make AMERICA KIND AGAIN. The racial divide is now bigger than ever. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect regardless of where their family origin is. Completely disrespectful, and distasteful, and these so-called ‘Americans’ writing, creating and hanging these horrible racial slurs, and acts of violence ARE NOT real AMERICANS. Americans stand by one another based on commonalities, NOT on Differences.
.F-America! I am a proud leftist and super stoked GM Authority is on the ball. Don’t give a rats — if it is fake hat e crime. Time to .F.-America and bring on the Communist revolution ! !
How can I help my Marxist brothers and sisters at GMAuthority ? Foot soldier and bros in arms ! ! !
Even so, why did the individuals acted biggoted to the AAs Co-workers and GM management didn’t do due diligence?. It’s failure to act.
I work with blue collar unions all the time. I have never seen anything like this, nor even seen racial ressent towards minorities, particularly with people in Ohio. I have seen some social justice minoritys go out of their way to find hate crime. I am, like most blue collars who are accused of racism, probably going to say this is fake news. When I meet a blue collar racist I’ll believe it. Every KKK memberive seen live off welfare. They aren’t crewed on strait enough to hold a job. I do know that the only papers faker than the times are local journals. Sorry Toledo. Go do research.
So true, Steven.
And the fake “hate crime” pushers are usually wealthy Democrat activist African American actors like Jussie Smollett. There is no need for divisive people like this in America.
And yet the Dems and Alex/ Sean on here wonder why the blue collar Union guys and gals in Detroit, Mich and other Union States voted Trump. We are tired off the horse crap.
There is nothing more satisfying when the big boss shows up at your work place. They’re usually delivering good news and a company celebration of sorts usually follows. Sure it is a morale booster but allows the local managers to address issues with the big boss and show there work.
No doubt one or several workers are doing these bad deeds. Those who think that companies like GM allow it have never worked for a large corporations. There was a law suit because GM has deep pockets. If it was a company of 30 people do you think anyone would care. I worked for a global company that was the third or forth largest in the world, well over 450,000 employees at one time. Huge efforts and training were in place about employee releations and gender equality.
It gets more interesting…Huge Q drops on Jussie Smollett fake “hate crime” accusation today. Below just one example:
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!!mG7VJxZNCI
21 Feb 2019 – 3:49:46 PM
HATE HOAX by [SMOLLETT] [FF designed to pass anti-lynching law] gets wall-to-wall FAKE NEWS coverage?
REAL HATE [REAL VIOLENCE] [& FASCISM] carried out by members of ANTIFA gets ZERO coverage?
Reconcile.
1=1?
When will the FBI conclude their investigation into ANTIFA?
What happens if the phone records of SMOLLETT leak?
Who did he talk to multiple times prior to turning himself in?
Political forces @ work?
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra visiting this facility won’t do anything unless she understands the issues that are causing the problems at the factory and a solution as to how to make things run efficiently.
Her visiting this factory because of this ain’t a social visit, she bringing pink slips with the same smile she used in front of Congress for the Ignition Switch Fiasco and no union is stopping her…
I’m just here for the comments. #HateCrimeHoax
At a former UAW plant I worked at, knots resembling nooses were used on pull cords by forklift drivers to actuate doors ect. Complaints were filed, knots were removed. Soon after real nooses were found around plant. Complaints again filed nooses removed. This continued until federal charges were filed and payouts made. Years later, after plant closed African American employees bragged on social media it was a false flag all along and that they “got paid”.
Let me guess, the times the black workers got called “N” the other white workers were actually saying “they’re near”…….