Goodyear workers (on strike) plead for help from NASCAR fans

Omaha Steve

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Sun Dec-03-06 07:31 PM
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Goodyear workers (on strike) plead for help from NASCAR fans

http://www.laborradio.org/node/4786

Goodyear workers plead for help from NASCAR fans

Lede: Goodyear workers want NASCAR fans to stand by their strike to keep jobs in America. Doug Cunningham has the story.

By Doug Cunningham

Fifteen thousand steelworkers on strike against Goodyear want NASCAR fans to support the strike because the fight is for American jobs against Goodyear�s plan to ship more tires into the U.S. from China. Sonia Loftin
Works at the Tyler, Texas plant that Goodyear wants to close.

: �Oh, we need their support bad, because we make the NASCAR tires and they have the temporary scabs in there making those tires at the moment. They�re tryin� to take all the jobs overseas, over to China. We have to keep some jobs in America. We�re fighting for our future and everybody�s future. If they close our plant down in Tyler our economy � it�s going to hurt so many families. So many people are gonna lose, not just the people that work at Goodyear in Tyler.�

United Steelworkers members are taking their strike message to NASCAR fans, to Goodyear stores and to communities all over America � communities that Goodyear worker Ronnie Crane of Danville, Virginia says are being hurt by corporate greed shipping U.S. jobs overseas.

: �Whenever you don�t have jobs and even when people are just out of work - whether the plant is shut down or not � it affects the whole economy."

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NMDemDist2

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Sun Dec-03-06 07:34 PM
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1. here's a K&N for ya Steve, and for American jobs n/t

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ellenfl

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Sun Dec-03-06 07:54 PM
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2. they don't say how we can help. i emailed this to my

nascar group anyway.

ellen fl

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Omaha Steve

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Mon Dec-04-06 06:55 AM
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7. How to help the Goodyear strikers

Post a few flyers from this link. Talk about the strike and tire safety to everyone. Don't buy Goodyear brand tires until after the strike ends. Complaining to a Goodyear dealer wouldn't hurt either.

http://www.gkdsolidarityexpress.org/Safety%20Alert.pdf

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Fridays Child

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Sun Dec-03-06 08:30 PM
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3. A k&r for the Labor Movement!

:woohoo:

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onehandle

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Sun Dec-03-06 09:31 PM
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4. "NASCAR voters" don't give a shit about their own family's welfare...

...and voted for Bush. Why would they lift a finger for union workers.

Might as well ask Wal-Mart shoppers to spend two extra cents on a twelve pack of toilet paper at Target. Ain't gonna happen.

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Bluzmann57

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Sun Dec-03-06 09:45 PM
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5. I think you may be surprised by Nascar people's response

I know it's supposed to be a bunch of "good ol' boys", but really, a lot of NASCAR fans are Union people and will support their brothers and sisters in other Unions. How do I know? I am a Union member. And I used to belong to the Steel Workers Union as well.

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Lugnut

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Sun Dec-03-06 10:08 PM
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6. Baloney

That dog doesn't hunt when it comes to today's NASCAR fans including me. I support the Goodyear employees and all union members. Without legislation to beef up collective bargaining and labor laws we're all spinning our wheels.

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wicket

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Mon Dec-04-06 03:39 PM
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10. Another NASCAR fan here!

:kick:

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ellenfl

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Mon Dec-04-06 10:10 AM
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8. baloney from me too!

i am a paralegal, my boyfriend is in management and our closest nascar friend is an attorney. i know many other fans who are liberal. quit doing the repugs work for them by conflating nascar and repugs.

ellen fl

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Az_lefty

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Mon Dec-04-06 03:19 PM
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9. your mistaken with that generalization...

NASCAR fans come from all walks of life...

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pinerow

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Mon Dec-04-06 06:19 PM
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11. For the most part...NASCAR fans are

so-called "right-to-work" people...good luck on that whole collective bargaining thing...:toast:

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