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Goodyear to pare production, cut 550 jobs
marketwatch.com ^
| 6/19/09
| Shawn Langlois
Posted on 06/19/2009 2:54:30 PM PDT by Kartographer
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. on Friday said it will cut back on production at a Tennessee tire plant due to weak industry demand in a move that will cost 550 workers their jobs.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: economy; goodyear; layoffs
"The foreman said these jobs are going boys and they ain't com'n back."
To: Kartographer
To: Kartographer
Rubber is not meeting the road.
Foreign imports or foreign made here use whose rubber?
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posted on
06/19/2009 3:03:42 PM PDT
by
ex-snook
("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
To: Kartographer
Goodyear’s sales are flat.
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
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posted on
06/19/2009 3:08:36 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
To: OrangeHoof
They’re having trouble finding traction in this economy.
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posted on
06/19/2009 3:09:31 PM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Whoever coined the term "foolproof" underestimated the ingenuity and determination of fools.)
To: Kartographer
I worked at a Goodyear dealer in high school. Talk about crappy tires! I can’t tell you how many people I have talked out of buying them.
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posted on
06/19/2009 3:13:13 PM PDT
by
gop4lyf
(Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
To: Kartographer
If they’re union jobs expect obama to take the plant over.
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
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posted on
06/19/2009 3:24:59 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
To: Kartographer
They discontinued my truck tire, so I had to buy Cooper. Their loss.
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posted on
06/19/2009 4:19:11 PM PDT
by
aliquando
(A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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