Cummins Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger Issues Statement on Voting Rights
April 02 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Today, Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) Chairman and CEO, Tom Linebarger
issued the following statement:
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“Cummins supports the Business Roundtable’s
recent statement on the importance of voting, and we agree “the
right to vote is the essence of a democratic society.” We are
active in, and support, efforts to advance voter accessibility and
to make this fundamental right more broadly available. We are
stronger as a nation when more people vote and are engaged in the
civic process. We believe efforts to restrict voting access are
discriminatory, largely aimed at our Black and brown citizens, and
have no place in the inclusive communities we are committed to
building.
We stand today as advocates for inclusion and
equity, as we did in 1963 when our then CEO J. Irwin Miller
supported Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington. We have a
proud and long history of advocacy for those who are marginalized
and oppressed, and we will continue to speak out on their behalf.
Diversity, equity and inclusion make our communities stronger and
more vibrant. We call on elected officials – at the federal, state
and local levels – to advance efforts to provide greater voting
access. We also call on leaders of companies and communities in
every state around the country to do their part to make it clear
that we will not tolerate discriminatory voting practices.
Voting is a core civil rights issue, and we
have been engaged in this battle far too long. We will not stop
until voting is accessible to all people in our country. Anything
less diminishes our democracy.”
About Cummins Inc.
Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of
complementary business segments that design, manufacture,
distribute and service a broad portfolio of power solutions. The
company’s products range from diesel, natural gas, electric and
hybrid powertrains and powertrain-related components including
filtration, aftertreatment, turbochargers, fuel systems, controls
systems, air handling systems, automated transmissions, electric
power generation systems, batteries, electrified power systems,
hydrogen generation and fuel cell products. Headquartered in
Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins
employs approximately 57,825 people committed to powering a more
prosperous world through three global corporate responsibility
priorities critical to healthy communities: education, environment
and equality of opportunity. Cummins serves its customers online,
through a network of company-owned and independent distributor
locations, and through thousands of dealer locations worldwide and
earned about $1.8 billion on sales of $19.8 billion in 2020. See
how Cummins is powering a world that’s always on by accessing news
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Jon Mills Cummins Inc. Phone: 317-658-4540
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