He says he was promised his job back after deployment - then given three reasons for his firing
A concrete company demoted and fired a National Guard member over his military service, a new federal lawsuit alleges.
The complaint, filed July 28, 2026, in Nashville federal court, names Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete as the defendant. The plaintiff, a former general manager, alleges his standing at the company began to slip once his employer learned he would deploy.
He joined the company in 2018 as a truck driver and rose to general manager over eight concrete plants by December 2021, according to the filing. He says he had positive reviews and no discipline on his record. In August 2023, the complaint states, he told the chief executive he would deploy the following year. The suit says the CEO told him he could work closer to home beforehand and that he would return to his general manager job afterward.
That did not happen, the complaint alleges. Before deployment, the filing says, he was moved down to dispatch and then to driving trucks - roughly four levels below general manager. After he reminded a supervisor that he still held the general manager title, the complaint says the CEO told him to either drive a truck or take unpaid leave, and to not "pull the 'GM' card."
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