Posted
10/30/2006 05:26:00 PM
by Douglas
Looks like a Badyear for 1,100 tire makers in Tyler, Texas.
Troubled global tire giant Goodyear said it was shutting down a 44-year-old plant in Texas with the loss of 1,100 jobs.
Goodyear, which has been suffering a strike at another plant in Alabama for more than three weeks, said it would incur a charge of 155 million to 165 million dollars as a result of closing the plant at Tyler, Texas.
The facility at Tyler, which opened in 1962, produces about 25,000 tires for passenger cars and light trucks a day.
Goodyear said the small-diameter passenger tires made at Tyler have "been under considerable pressure from low-cost imports".
Those pesky low-cost imports. I can't believe Texans in Tyler won't work for $7 a day. What wrong with them? To preserve our nation's manufacturing base, I'm sure these 1,100 workers can get a job manufacturing
burgers.