Goodyear announces Huntsville closure plans

Goodyear has announced plans to close its factory at Huntsville, Alabama, by December 5th, affecting around 1,100 associates. The closure of Huntsville was widely expected, following the recently-ratified labour agreement with unions. Meanwhile, union representatives at the Kelly-Springfield plant in Tyler, Texas, say that tyre production has been cut by 11,000 units a day and up to 200 workers could be laid off by mid-November, hopefully only temporarily, says the union.