Goodyear isn’t the only major U.S. employer allowing its employees to embrace Black Lives Matter at work — but not Make America Great Again.
So is the federal government.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency headed by a President Donald Trump appointee, last month issued a statement saying that Black Lives Matter is neither political nor partisan, which means federal employees are free to wear or display materials at work related to the social justice cause.
Make America Great Again, however, is off limits, the special counsel has said, because it’s Trump’s slogan and federal workers are prohibited from using slogans or phrases directed toward the success or failure of a partisan political candidate or a political party.
It’s not clear if Trump was aware of the federal government position when he called for a boycott of Goodyear for mirroring the government policy.