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Your site is great! Response to your Alert . The only ones who were mislead are those who believed in the first place .I will say this, we had no choice but to grab on to thier pant leg untill we were shook loose. Now you can call them every dirty name you can , I have and not done yet ! ... Woody { Collingwood }
Morals I am currently a senior in college. My father is a Goodyear employee and has been for the past 37 years. He is very dedicated to Goodyear and it really disappoints me to see this corporation treat it's employees so poorly. I remember back when I was younger and having a Father working at Goodyear was fun... It was even enjoyable for my Father back then. There were many "family activities" and it seemed Goodyear really cared about their employees. I know things haven't always been perfect between Goodyear and workers, but it was definitely not a problem like it is today. I miss those days. I miss my Dad not having to constantly worry about not having health insurance and how he was going to pay this months power bill. Luckily my Father planned ahead for finances and retirement so he doesn't have a car payment or mortgage payment; therefore, he is not struggling as much as others. As soon as I graduate next August and he no longer has to pay my tuition and bills, he is retiring. But I know there are plenty others who live paycheck to paycheck, or is finally running out of their "emergency money" and my heart breaks for these people. I am a business student, so I know how these big corporations work. I can't say I blame most corp's for the decisions they make. But I also do understand morals and treating your employees with the respect they deserve. They spend their whole lives working for you & you repay them by making their life a living hell?? It makes no sense to me. I will take this experience with me in life and vow to never treat my employees the way Goodyear has done...I don't care how much money I can save or how much it will benefit me. I will continue to keep my morals and heart along with being a successful business woman. I will build my business on this vow and I believe I will be rewarded in the future by doing so. I firmly believe in karma; which is why I know Goodyear will eventually get payback for doing this to good people. I believe things happen for a reason. Perhaps there are many other daughters and sons of Goodyear employees that will be affected such as I have been; and they will take this experience with them & make the next generation of business a more pleasurable one to work in. Good
luck to all of you. I'm praying for ya!
December 04, 2006 Keep
up the good work! I was on the street for two years here at the Firestone
Ag. plant. United we bargain - Divided we beg.
November
23, 2006
November
22, 2006 I am writing this letter to somehow inspire you and your member’s nation wide about the current conditions at the Good Year Tire and Rubber Company. I write this with some experience and background in regards to the Good Year Tire and Rubber Company. You see, I am a former United Rubber Workers (URW) member and a former Good Year Tire and Rubber employee who worked at the New Bedford, Massachusetts manufacturing plant. I vividly recall dealing with company in the late 80’s when ‘Good Year’ implemented a different type of working atmosphere (a rotating work schedule), at the New Bedford, Massachusetts manufacturing plant. This rotating work schedule was intended to reduce cost and enhance profit for the company and for the New Bedford, Massachusetts manufacturing plant as well. After many union meetings and discussions with the company, the union members decided to accept the proposal and actually work the new rotating schedule. This new work schedule allocated the company with the ability to save money by not paying its employees overtime and at the same time the union workers now had days off during the week (i.e. days off on Monday through Thursday). However, the unique circumstance was that only half the plant would be implementing this new rotating work schedule. In essence the old technique was used here “divide and conquer”. To make a long story short, after many years of accommodating the company’s needs to be more competitive for foreign markets and workforce competition, the plant closed anyway. Although, after the plant closed, the company did make an effort to place its New Bedford, Massachusetts employees work at other facilities, which was a kind gesture on the company’s part. However, the disappointing outcome was devastating for the employees at the New Bedford, Massachusetts manufacturing plant and the surrounding community as well. As I witness the current conditions at the company, I see the same objectives today. The company is still determined to ask union workers to accept hardships when the company experiences difficulties as all companies do from time to time. However, when the company rebounds and acquires major profits, it once again expels rigorous organized labor busting tactics for its unionized workforce members. Although, I am aware that this is a difficult period for your current union members, I am also compelled to ask all union members to stand together. Do not allow the company to employ the current contemporary tactics used to destroy good paying union jobs and transfer them to other plants globally that are not unionized!!! Remember, this is your livelihood, your means of employment. From experience, I can say this: the company wants nothing more than to have the unionized workforce break under the current pressure. Union members, stand as one and do not succumb to the existing insurmountable pressure that is currently exerted on you. I well know the trials that you currently face personally and individually. In closing, I can only say this: I only wished us; (the New Bedford, Massachusetts URW members) stood and fought the company from the very beginning of the ordeal in the late 80’s. Maybe, just maybe, a different outcome would have transpired. My
thoughts and prayers are with you always…
Hi...I'm
Anita Jones I was in the interview that was done on the Union City plant...I
have to say for myself that it's unfair what Goodyear is trying to do
to the people especially the retirees..without the retirees the Goodyear
workers wouldn't have a door to step foot in to do work, they started
the factory and got the production of tires up to what it is today...Goodyear
should be ashamed of themselves for what they are trying to do...Their
CEO sure isn't suffering not with his big bonus's that he gets, so why
does he think he's any better than us!! He's not!! he puts his pants
on the same way we do...they need to learn we need the things to survive
just like they do! My husband Mike has worked at Goodyear in UC for
10 years and also thinks its a crying shame what they are trying to
do...he thinks they are just gearing up to be able to have tires built
in China...I say if they do, don't buy Goodyear tires...we should ban
together and put the hurt on Goodyear, tell everyone to buy their tires
so we can deplete their inventory then who are they going to get to
make them..the supervisors? We all know we wouldn't want the tires they
would make!! My dad is also a retiree from the UC plant without his
benifits he and my mom wouldn't have health coverage. What a shame such
a big mess Goodyear is making out of all this...We should all band together
and support our local strikers...let them know we stand not behind them
but beside them and support them all the way....
Solidarity
with Goodyear strikers! Working people know well what this concessionary drive means for job conditions and our very lives. This week another coal miner was killed on the job in West Virginia, bringing the nationwide total for the year to 43, the highest number in over a decade. The death toll in the coal mines—to say nothing of fatality and injury rates at construction sites and other industries—is a brutal reminder of what the bosses think of us, and what will happen to our class if their profit-drive is left unchecked. Goodyear, the top U.S. tire-maker, is trying to go as far as it can toward breaking the union. It is aggressively recruiting scabs. It has announced plans to close its plant in Tyler, Texas, arrogantly writing off one of the main demands of the strikers. If Goodyear succeeds in its anti-union assault, it will put more blood in the mouths of other companies, like Bridgestone/Firestone, waiting to see how far they can go on similar assaults they are planning. The Goodyear strikers are using union power to stand up to the bosses’ offensive. Organizing to bring our collective strength to bear is the only weapon working people have to fight back. Support the Goodyear workers’ cause! A victory by the striking Steelworkers will be a victory for the entire working class and its allies.
Copyright © 2006 Good Year
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