AP, February 18, 2009
Goodyear is proposing to cut more than 400 union jobs at its Danville plant among 5,000 to be eliminated companywide this year.
Chief Executive Officer Robert Keegan made that announcement Wednesday during a conference call to give the company's earnings report.
The United Steelworkers local that represents the Danville workers has scheduled a vote Thursday on a tentative agreement.
Goodyear has been in Danville since 1966, and is the city's largest employer with about 2,000 workers. It is the largest producer of commercial truck and bus tires in North America as well as aircraft tires.
A Steelworkers spokesman in Gadsden, Ala., said the Danville workers will vote on schedule changes in the part of the plant where truck tires are made.
Goodyear posted a $330 million loss in the fourth quarter and had a 21 percent decline in sales.
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