Goodyear Union busting in Texas?

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Back story...workers were striking for better benefits, now Goodyear has decided to close the plant. It happens to be one of the biggest employers in Tyler as well as a moneymaker for Goodyear.
Here again, corporation wins, the people lose.
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Tuesday's statement from Goodyear came a day after the company said it was closing the Tyler plant and eliminating 1,100 jobs. The plant's fate had been a key difference in negotiations that have been stalled since more than 12,000 workers in the United States and Canada went on strike Oct. 5.
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The company's final offer, he said, included protections for the Alabama plant only if workers would accept wage cuts and other provisions that workers and retirees found unfavorable.
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Goodyear said this week that it is hiring an unspecified number of temporary workers at 12 plants affected by the three-week-old strike, including the Tyler plant. That move has been criticized by the union, which says hiring temporary employees to make tires raises concerns about safety and tire quality.

Goodyear executives throughout the strike have said they want the union to help the company be competitive in a global economy. The union says it already accepted pay cuts, job losses and other concessions in 2003 to help get the company back on track financially.
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