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Article: News From USW: USW's Leo Gerard to Appear on Lou Dobbs Tonight.
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- December 5, 2006
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PITTSBURGH -- News From USW: United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard will appear as a guest this evening on the CNN program, Lou Dobbs Tonight, televised at 6-7 p.m. EST.
Gerard will discuss Goodyear's plan to close U.S. tire-making plants and move production to China. Some 15,000 workers at plants in the U.S. and Canada went on strike Oct. 5, following months of contract talks where Goodyear kept demanding concessions that threaten employees' jobs and retirement security.
Gerard will tell how Goodyear has invested $150 million in outsourcing over the last three years with $18 million invested in its plant in Dalian China during ...