Goodyear, AZ - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Goodyear, AZ Index / Locations Transcripts Lilly Ledbetter ...the US Supreme Court case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, regardin... ...employment discrimination. She sued Goodyear for employment discrimination in a cas... ...and your promotion as manager in Goodyear , and then your realization that yo... ...a great opportunity, so I resigned from Goodyear and accepted that job. Then Goodyea... ...Goodyear and accepted that job. Then Goodyear Tire and Rubber built a big radia... ...a big radial division to their 1929 Goodyear plant. That plant was built in Gadsden... ...had left them, that I was going back to Goodyear to go back to work. But I went back t... ...to go back to work. But I went back to Goodyear and went back to work that weekend. S... ...tell her, “This is Lilly Ledbetter at Goodyear . I'm calling to see if Charlie woul... ...devastated. I thought, Surely, surely, Goodyear would be paying me comparable to wha... ...matched by a percentage from Goodyear . My 401[k] was six percent, matchin... ...her the first female plant manager of Goodyear . They knew that. I knew it. And the... ...promoted all the way to Akron [Ohio, Goodyear headquarters]. I knew that. I had ... ...almost forty when I went to work for Goodyear . I was planning to settle down, no... ...it, and then he was transferred with Goodyear to somewhere. He still works fo... ...to somewhere. He still works for Goodyear today, because my retiremen... ...the courtroom, it was only 360. But Goodyear appealed. It went to the Elevent... ...certainly did not in the Ledbetter v. Goodyear case, and he hasn't in a lot of othe... ...last two years of my working career at Goodyear , because I knew what I would draw fo... ...two females. One was still working for Goodyear , and the other one had sold he... ...I had to leave it in. I still draw from Goodyear each month my retirement and m... ...working for the doctors, and JSU, and Goodyear . I had spent so much time on job... ...knew that that was a good job at Goodyear . I knew I was meant for it. I knew ... Show more... Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice