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US Army may break workers strike

Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy December 18th, 2006 in Activism, Amreeka, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Labor عمال, Military

The US army is considering measures to break the workers strike at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Kansas, in the face of a looming shortage of tyres for Humvee trucks and other military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan. The strike involves 17,000 members of the United Steel labor union, who managed to cripple 16 Goodyear plants in the US and Canada since October 5. The main issues in dispute are the company’s plans to close a unionised plant in Texas, and a proposal for workers to shoulder future increases in healthcare costs.

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1 Jobs with Justice Dec 18th, 2006 at 10:01 pm

Goodyear is one of the contestants in the Jobs with Justice annual contest to determine who has done the most harm to working families this year. You can cast your vote until Dec. 20th @ 5pm at http://www.jwj.org/grinch.html. Please spread the word!
2 issandr Dec 19th, 2006 at 8:03 am

very interesting - so low-paid blue collar workers, like low-paid soldiers in Iraq, are getting reamed while the military-industrial complex rakes in the profits.

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