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Closing doesn't shock local.(Goodyear)

Byline: Brad Dawson

It didn't come as a surprise to members of United Steelworkers of America Local 915 that their days were numbered at Goodyear, but that doesn't mean they're not concerned about their future.

One of the worst-kept secrets emanating from the tentative master contract agreement reached Aug. 20 by USWA and Goodyear negotiators was the Huntsville tire plant's closing, likely by year's end. In the process, about 1,300 employees-1,050 of them active unionized workers-will lose their jobs or be forced to relocate via the company's preferential hi

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