Goodyear to Bring Back Danville Employees
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. said its Danville, Va., tire manufacturing facility will return to a continuous, seven-day operation schedule. As part of the ramping up process, the tiremaker will bring back about 400 workers who lost their jobs through buyouts and layoffs when the Danville plant went to a three-shift, five-day schedule in March
New Manager Named for Goodyear Danville Plant
Management at Goodyear’s North American Tire plants continues to evolve. Tim Noe, plant manager at Goodyear’s Buffalo, N.Y., tire plant, is replacing Andrew Harper as plant manager of the tiremaker’s Danville, Va., facility. Harper, who previously led Goodyear facilities Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Washington in England, is returning to Europe on another assignment. Noe was plant
Danville Workers Say NO! to Goodyear Pact
USW workers at Goodyear’s Danville, Va., tire plant have rejected the tentative contract reached between the tiremaker and union. Details of the vote were not immediately available. USW Local 831, which represents union workers at the plant, issued a brief statement on its Web site: “The Tentative Agreement reached between the USW and Goodyear Tire
Goodyear to Start Danville Layoffs in March
The USW approved an agreement with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. that would put the tiremaker’s Danville plant on eight-hour work shifts, five days a week, and offer 200 buyouts to qualified employees.
Goodyear’s Danville Plant to Lose 400 Staff
Following Goodyear’s announcement in its full-year report for 2008 that the company was to reduce its global workforce by 5,000 over the next year, CEO and Chairman Bob Keegan stated in a conference call with analysts that a tentative agreement had been reached with local Steelworker leadership at the manufacturer’s Danville, Va. plant to cut capacity and the work force by 400 people.
Goodyear To Invest $200 Million in Danville Expansion
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is making what it calls a major investment to keep its aircraft and medium radial truck tire plant in Danville, Va.
Goodyear Looking at New Danville Research Lab
(Akron/Tire Review) Goodyear and the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) are considering creation of a “one-of-a-kind tire performance research laboratory” near the tiremaker’s truck tire plant in Danville, Va.
Atturo Tire Adds New U.S. Distribution Centers
With the addition of new tread patterns and more than 40 new part numbers, the company says the need for more storage has increased.
Goodyear’s ‘Lax’ Safety Standards Contributed to Motorist, Worker Deaths, CIR Reports
A Center for Investigative Reporting investigation found that lax safety at two U.S. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plants contributed to deaths of motorists and workers at its plants.
Goodyear Investigating Two Plant Fires
Goodyear is currently investigating the causes of fires at plants in Danville, Va., Beaumont, Texas.
