Working Group Asks Goodyear to Explain How Mexico Factory Affects US Employment
After a congressional delegation was blocked from visiting a Goodyear plant in Mexico that had a wildcat strike last year, four of the delegation members -- including House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. -- have asked…
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the U.S.-headquartered company to tell them what proportion of that plant's tires are exported to the U.S., and "what effect this will have on existing U.S. operations." Blumenauer, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., told Goodyear they were disappointed they were not allowed to tour the plant. Instead they interviewed some of the 57 Goodyear workers who were fired after the strike. They asked Goodyear to respond to the fired workers' allegations that they had inadequate wages, inadequate protective gear, substandard training, and that there was discrimination and harassment, and that they were fired illegally in reprisals for their activism.