Goodyear Senior Executive Outsourced Jobs to India While Personally Benefitting from the Outsourcing Industry…annnnd She Just Departed Goodyear after Being Exposed

Corporate America has a problem. Its C-suites are stocked with ethically compromised individuals who have embraced a hostility to American labor, while wrapping themselves in a veneer of wokeness to cover the depth of their corruption and self-serving behavior.

I periodically like to highlight examples of this America-last, corporate corruption. Here is another example:

This scandal has already taken down one Goodyear executive, Mamatha Chamarthi. The company’s CEO, Mark Stewart, has not yet resigned, even though he is in the thick of the scandal. He needs to be dismissed by Goodyear’s Board of Directors. (But of course, the Board probably think they work for him, not vice versa.) Here is what happened:

• CEO Mark Stewart hired Mamatha Chamarthi as Goodyear’s “Chief Digital Officer” in 2024. Under Ms. Chamarthi’s direction, Goodyear is aggressively outsourcing jobs to India, with the full blessing of the CEO.

“Tech Mahindra to build 3,000-member GCC for Goodyear” [Outsource Accelerator – 02/10/2025]

Tech Mahindra, one of India’s leading IT services companies, is finalizing plans to establish a global capability center (GCC) for Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co in Hyderabad. The center, expected to employ 3,000 professionals, will focus on managing Goodyear’s research and development (R&D) and IT operations.

It goes without saying that Hyderabad is not in Ohio. It’s in India.

• Ms. Chamarthi is also the co-founder of T200, an organization with a goal of “Empowering Women in Technology.”

• Accenture is a company that specializes in providing outsourcing services and consultation, with a special focus on outsourcing jobs to India. Accenture is a potential contractor for Goodyear’s outsourcing contracts. The CEO of Accenture is Julie Sweet.

• A few weeks ago, T200 held its “Soar 2025” conference at Accenture headquarters in Chicago. Two of the three featured speakers at the T200 conference were Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and Goodyear CEO Mark Stewart.

• At the conclusion of the seminar, T200 put up a post at Linked-In that read, ”Thank you Julie Sweet and Accenture for your generous donation to T200.”

• News of this apparent kickback donation from Accenture to Ms. Chamarthi quickly spread among Goodyear employees and Reddit boards. Twitter/X user Karl Hollywood (@WokeCapital) picked up the story and spread it further.

• Without any press release or other announcement, Ms. Chamarthi suddenly departed Goodyear. Her biography page on the Goodyear corporate website was just scrubbed. This is the link which now reads “Sorry! We couldn’t find the page you’re looking for.” This is what used to be at the link:

• CEO Mark Stewart then provided an internal memo to Goodyear’s Global Digital & IT Associates reading in part, “Mamatha Chamarthi has left Goodyear. This departure does not change the strategic importance of our digital and IT transformation to our business. We have begun an external search for a leader with deep technical expertise and a proven track record in delivering end-to-end global IT and digital strategies…”

• Even as the behind-the-scenes drama that cost Ms. Chamarthi her job was playing out at Goodyear, Schlumberger (now known as SLB Limited) appointed her to their Board of Directors.

“SLB Limited Appoints Mamatha Chamarthi as Member of Board, Audit Committee and Energy Innovation and Technology Committee, Effective October 10, 2025” [Market Screener – 10/10/2025]

Ms. Chamarthi will also serve on the Board’s Audit Committee and Energy Innovation and Technology Committee. Ms. Chamarthi brings innovative technology and transformation experience to the Board. Ms. Chamarthi is the Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, a position she has held since July 2024.

• But just a few days later, Ms. Chamarthi was forced to resign from her newly appointed board position, as word apparently reached her fellow Schlumberger directors that Ms. Chamarthi’s ethical lapses had just ended her Goodyear career.

“SLB director Mamatha Chamarthi resigns from board” [Investing.com – 10/15/2025]

SLB Limited (NYSE:SLB) reported that Mamatha Chamarthi resigned from its Board of Directors on Sunday. According to the company’s statement in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Chamarthi’s resignation was not the result of any disagreement with SLB.

In contrast to the ethical rot that has infected Goodyear and much of the rest of corporate America, I work with many small businesses whose owners and executives are model citizens. They are generous, patriotic, loyal to their employees, and devoted to their local communities for whom they contribute so much economically. These small businesses and their owners are what make me such a proud free marketeer.

But with corporate America having become so unethical and so hostile to American labor, while also switching its allegiance from the United States to countries in Asia, a backlash is developing. The left may have co-opted the executive suites of major corporations, but the left also still dreams of imposing socialism. Team Mamdani is not a friend of corporations. But it is becoming mighty hard for those of us on the right to keep defending corporations who are so antagonistic toward everyday Americans, especially when they are engaged in such corrupt behavior for the benefit of their executives.

Corporate America must clean itself up, or voters will eventually impose a clean-up on Corporate America.

One last thing that I may want to address more fully in the future…

People like me who were once fervently anti-union, and who consistently voted to weaken organized labor, have been betrayed. In 1980, about 22% of the American workforce was unionized. People like me argued that unions made corporations less competitive due to inflated labor costs not based on market labor rates, and especially because they were paying full-time wages to idle employees and to early retirees. While I was always willing to acknowledge that unions had once served a purpose in improving hours and labor conditions, I argued that the day had passed for labor unions. And indeed, the era of private-sector unions did pass. Only about 6% of America’s private-sector work force is now unionized. My side won! We defeated organized labor and made it nearly irrelevant. So how did corporate America thank people like me for unburdening them from unions? They spit in our faces by proceeding to offshore every possible job they could. And for those jobs they couldn’t offshore, they aggressively imported a low-wage, H1B workforce that is effectively a form of chattel labor. Absolute betrayal.

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posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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