Rubber Workers Strike Goodyear
7-14-67 [handwritten]
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — More than 20,000 United Rubber Workers at 11 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plants in 10 states joined today in the union’s longest and largest walkout against the rubber industry’s major producers.
Pickets appeared at plant gates at the Thursday midnight deadline—less than two hours after contract negotiations at Cincinnati had recessed with union representatives rejecting
Goodyear’s third offer in bargaining that has been going on nearly four months.
Goodyear had continued work on a day-to-day basis after the union struck Firestone, B.F. Goodrich and Uniroyal April 21, idling 51,000 employes. On June 2, General Tire & Rubber, smallest member of the industry’s big five was struck, adding 3,050 more workers to the walkout.
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The first break in the tie-up came Thursday when negotiators agreed to a contract covering 3,300 General Tire and Rubber Co. employes in Arkon, Ohio and Waco, Tex.
Negotiations are continuing in Cincinnati in attempts to reach agreement with other major rubber industries. About 5,000 Uniroyal employes in Naugatuck and Beacon Falls have been idled by the strike.
Goodyear employs 8,300 at its plants here and has another Ohio plant at St. Marys. Remaining plants are in Gadsden, Ala.; Los Angeles; Jackson, Mich.; Muncie, Ind.; North Chicago, Ill.; Topeka, Kan.; Lincoln, Neb.; Windsor, Vt., and New Bedford, Mass.
