This story is so absurd it seems unbelievable. Deployed to Afghanistan, Lance Corporal Mark Rhyne called his mom Teresa Danford. She answered and they talked. He seldom calls because he may have a chance to use a satellite phone about once a month. The next day she was suspended from work for three days and told if it happened again she would be fired. There is now a petition to force Crane Interiors to let Teresa talk to her deployed son.
This is also an example of why unions are important and why small details are negotiated in contracts. Some people cannot be trusted to use commonsense and know that employees have the right to be treated with dignity, respect and compassion. Read the story here.
See petition here.
The person who suspended and threatened to fire her is Larry Officer LarryO@crane-interiors.com.
To write the company.
Crane Interiors
200 Alexander Dr.
Woodbury, TN. 37190
Voice: (615) 563-4800
Fax: (615) 563-8178
Popularity: 1% [?]
About Michael T. McPhearson
Michael T. McPhearson, a native of Fayetteville North Carolina was a field artillery officer in the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division during Desert Shield /Desert Storm, also known as Gulf War I. Michael joined the Army Reserve 1981 as an enlisted soldier at the age of 17 and attended basic training the summer between his junior and senior high school years. He is a ROTC graduate of Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. His military career includes 6 years of reserve service and 5 years active duty service. He separated from active duty in 1992 as a Captain.
Now living in Newark, New Jersey, Michael is currently the National Coordinator for United for Peace and Justice. He is a former Executive Director of Veterans For Peace.
His volunteer social and economic justice activist work includes membership in Veterans For Peace, the Newark based People's Organization for Progress, Military Families Speak Out, the American Civil Liberties Union and the former coordinating committee member for the Bring Them Home Now campaign against the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Secretary of the Saint Louis Branch of the NAACP. Michael is the publisher of the McPhearsonReport.com.
Michael's son joined the Army in January 2004 and served one tour in Iraq. He separated from the military in 2007.
In December of 2003 Michael returned to Iraq as part of a peace delegation to examine the state of the occupation firsthand. He has also traveled widely within the United States and to Istanbul Turkey and Bologna Italy as a speaker on the U.S. peace movement and world peace.
This story is so absurd it seems unbelievable. Deployed to Afghanistan, Lance Corporal Mark Rhyne called his mom Teresa Danford. She answered and they talked. He seldom calls because he may have a chance to use a satellite phone about once a month. The next day she was suspended from work for three days and told if it happened again she would be fired. There is now a petition to force Crane Interiors to let Teresa talk to her deployed son.
