US: Bridgestone Firestone and USW agree on new contract

摘要

BRIDGESTONE has signed a tentative agreement for a new master contract with the United Steelworkers union (USW), covering union members at the tyre facilities in Akron, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; and LaVergne, Tennessee; and the Firestone tube plant in Russellville, Arkansas and the Firestone air spring plant in Noblesville, Indiana. Ron Hoover, USW executive vice president of the union's Rubber and Plastic Industry Conference, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the new contract is based on the same lines as the BF Goodrich and Goodyear contracts. Agreement details have yet to be divulged.