Bridgestone workers generous taxpayers, not beer drinkers
I would like to take issue with some reprehensible comments made by Safety Committee members Teddy Boyd and Sally Brock in a story written by Charles Johnson and published in the Jan. 9 edition of the Southern Standard.
My Boyd is quoted as saying he’s seen “The Bridgestone Bunch” drinking at 7:30 a.m. at Country Club Market, while Ms. Brock said that time of the day was their “happy hour.” To set the record straight, I can attest that those people are not Bridgestone employees.
We Bridgestone people do all of our boozing at our local union hall. Also, Bridgestone people have more class than to start drinking at 7:30 a.m. We wait until 8 a.m. Besides, they don’t sell beer before then anyway.
Facetiousness aside, the fact our politicians would go on record as saying and your newspaper would publish such comments shows contempt for a group of hard-working and generous taxpayers.
Bridgestone/Firestone, their employees, and the members of USWA 1155L have done a great deal to benefit Warren County. Our donations of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years has helped virtually every sector needing it.
We ask for nothing in return, yet receive ingratitude through asinine articles such as that one. Perhaps this is one reason for the failure to recruit new business to the area. Prospective business people only have read the local paper to see the local folks get support from neither the government nor the press. I’m beginning to feel sorry I relocated here myself.
Sincerely,
Joe W. Kendall
99 Shannon Lane
McMinnville