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Goodyear to Resume Negotiations with Kelly-Springfield Plant Unions.

By Greg Junek, Tyler Morning Telegraph, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 30--Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the union representing Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. employees said they will resume master contract negotiations Monday in Cincinnati, more than a month after they left the negotiating table.

The master contract between the company and the United Steelworkers of America expired April 19 at the Goodyear and Dunlop facilities, and July 6 at the Kelly-Springfield plants in Tyler, Fayetteville, N.C., and Freeport, Ill.

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