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USW deal brings Cooper closer to Apollo agreement

A merger-facilitating deal has been struck between Cooper Tire & Rubber and the United Steelworkers Union. On 30 October, the tyre maker entered into a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers and United Steelworkers (USW) Local 207L (representing workers at the company’s Findlay plant) and Local 752L (Texarkana), along with USW Local 556L (Clarksdale). Details of the tentative agreement have not yet been disclosed –the agreement must first meet with Apollo’s approval and be ratified by union members.

4th November 2013/by Tyrepress Editors

Union has eye on Cooper’s Tupelo plant

Cooper Tire & Rubber’s acquisition by Apollo Tyres is expected to close within a matter of months, and the new owner may need to reckon with a unionised plant in Tupelo, Mississippi. According to US industry publication Tire Review, local media have reported the presence of the United Steelworkers union in town.

20th August 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Union members ratify Bridgestone contract

Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) voted to ratify a new four-year contract with Bridgestone Americas, which covers 4,500 workers at six facilities. Following several months of negotiations, the union and tyre maker reached an agreement on a new contract in late July, and USW union members have now voted to accept the new agreement by a margin of 2 to 1.

13th August 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

BFGoodrich, USW reach agreement

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BFGoodrich has joined Goodyear and Bridgestone in reaching a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers. The tyre maker and union negotiating teams have nutted out a three-year contract covering 2,400 workers at the company’s Tuscaloosa and Fort Wayne plants in the US.

30th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear, Bridgestone Reach Deals with USW

Both Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Bridgestone Americas have reached tentative agreements with the United Steelworkers (USW), avoiding strikes in several plants across the US.

Goodyear reached a tentative agreement with USW on 27 July, the deadline for its former contract. The deal, covering 8,500 employees, still needs to be approved by the majority of the six local USW unions.

29th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear, USW progressing towards deal

Strike action at Goodyear plants in the US has been averted following the announcement of a tentative agreement between the tyre maker and the United Steelworkers union. On the evening of Saturday 27 July, as the clock ticked away on the previous four-year contract, the two parties reached an understanding over a four-year labour agreement that covers some 8,500 employees at Goodyear’s Buffalo, Topeka, Fayetteville, Danville, Gadsden and Akron plant.

29th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Strike possible at US Goodyear plants

The deadline for reaching a new contract agreement at a number of Goodyear, Michelin and Bridgestone plants in the US is Saturday, and the likelihood this will be settled to the satisfaction of both tyre makers and union decreases with every hour.

26th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Union ratifies Titan contract

The proposed four year contract for three of Titan International’s factories in the US has been accepted in votes held by the United Steelworkers union. Union members at the company’s Des Moines, Iowa, Freeport, Illinois and Bryan, Ohio plants voted in favour of an agreement that the USW says offers workers “wage and benefit improvements and a variety of contract language enhancements, most notably around the issue of forced overtime.”

20th March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Home for Christmas – Titan axes 60 jobs at Freeport plant

In his guidance for next year, Titan International’s Maurice Taylor bragged that 2012 delivered “record revenue, net income, gross margins, operation margins – just everything.” He also boasted about his golf handicap. Perhaps news of the company’s vitality and Taylor’s prowess on the green will provide some comfort to the 60 or so workers reported to have been laid off at Titan Tire’s Freeport, Illinois factory in the US. According to local newspaper the Journal Standard, the Titan International subsidiary confirmed on 17 December that employee lay-offs had occurred; while the Journal Standard says Titan officials were “unavailable for comment”, it writes that David Young, executive director of the Northwest Illinois Development Alliance, attributes the job cuts to a seasonal reduction in demand.

18th December 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tariffs on Chinese consumer tyres no longer needed, says US union

Former champion of the US tariff on Chinese-made consumer tyres, the United Steelworkers, claims the trade barrier is no longer needed. In this, the week in which the tariffs first introduced on 26 September 2009 are due to expire, the USW issued a statement addressing its right to request an extension. The USW shares that it told the US Government as far back as March that it would not seek an extension.

25th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper Findlay union re-elects leader

After leading his union through a brutal three-month lockout at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s Findlay, Ohio, tyre plant, USW Local 207 president Rod Nelson has been re-elected to his post, Tire Review reports. Nelson received 311 votes from Local 207 membership, according to the Findlay Courier, or nearly 47 per cent of all votes cast. Two opponents for the three-year term received 186 and 167 votes, respectively.

18th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Update – Cooper Findlay labour agreement ratified

Almost three months to the day after the announcement of a lockout at Cooper Tire & Rubber’s Findlay factory in the US state of Ohio, agreement on a new labour agreement has been reached by the tyre maker and the United Steelworkers union. On 27 February Cooper announced that USW Local 207L has ratified a five-year agreement that covers some 1,050 union members at the Findlay plant. Union members voted 627 to 321 in favour of the agreement.

28th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper's Findlay workers consider 5-year contract

Union workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co’s plant in Findlay, Ohio, go to the ballot box today to consider a new five-year contract offer that could end the now three-month long lock out at the plant, reports Tire Review. But according to reports in the Findlay Courier this morning, some USW Local 207 members feel it will be a close vote, even though its 1,050 members have been without a paycheck since November 2011.

27th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper workers agree second tentative contract

90 days after they were locked out of their jobs, workers at the Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Findlay, Ohio, have reached a second tentative contract with the tyre-maker, Tire Review reports. The agreement, which will be put to a ratification vote this weekend, was reached late on 23 February. The two sides had returned to the bargaining table on 20 February and have held lengthy sessions on each day since.

24th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Deals reached between Cooper, unions

No need for undue excitement. An agreement has been ratified between Cooper Tire & Rubber and workers based in Findlay, Ohio – but they aren’t the locked-out workers embroiled in the fracas oft reported by Tyrepress.com over the past couple of months. The three-year contract with the US tyre maker involves truck drivers represented by the Teamsters union. Final approval of the new contract was given on 18 February.

21st February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors