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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:21:25 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bridgestone extends deal with NFL</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=157</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations will remain the “Official Tire of the National Football League” for another five years, the company announced today.



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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>More on the new Yokohama labor contract</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=156</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yokohama Tire Corp. has released additional details of its new, four-year labor contract with the United Steelworkers at the company's Salem, Va., consumer tire plant.

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			<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>USW members making green light bulbs</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=155</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The next time you're shopping for environmentally friendly light bulbs the United Steelworkers would like you to take a look at Sylvania Super Saver halogen bulbs]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>USW Statement on U.S. Senate Vote for Financial Reform</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=154</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), issued the following statement on the far reaching financial reform bill passed late yesterday by a vote of 59 to 39 – 'The Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010' (S.3217).

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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Yokohama, steelworkers union reach agreement</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=151</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Workers at the plant, one of Salem's major employers, will vote on the four-year contract soon.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>USW Taxi Drivers Union Offers Free Rides to Flood Victims in Nashville</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=153</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The United Steelworkers (USW) Nashville Taxi Drivers union is offering free rides to flood victims in Nashville next week (May 24 through May 30).  ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Steelworkers lobby for jobs,good, green and safe</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=152</link>
			<description><![CDATA["Our people want to work!" Rep. Betty Sutton of Ohio declared at the 1,000-strong Steelworker Rapid Response Conference here  on May 6. "]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>USW Supports 'SEAM Act' to Create Green Manufacturing Jobs in U.S.</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=150</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The United Steelworkers (USW) today praised Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) for introducing the "Security in Energy and Manufacturing Act of 2010"]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 6 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>U.S. rules vs. China on steel pipe </title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=149</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Int'l Trade Commission said Chinese companies hurt American firms by selling $2.8 bil of steel pipes used to drill oil wells at unfairly low prices in the U.S. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bridgestone shuts its doors for last time</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=147</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Australia's last tyre factory has shut its gates after 45 years in production.

Six hundred workers at Bridgestone's Adelaide plant clocked off for the last time today, gathering for a farewell barbecue
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Wisconsin officials mobilize to retain Harley-Davidson</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=148</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Harley-Davidson pulling out its factory out of Milwaukee? That would be like General Motors abandoning Detroit, Kellogg's waving goodbye to Battle Creek, Mich., or Coca-Cola disappearing from Atlanta. But Harley is warning its unions that it could be leaving cheeseheads behind.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bridgestone increases production and prices</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=146</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last month, Bridgestone said it would build a new Indian tyre plant near Pune, Maharashtra state, at a cost of about JPY50bn (US$540.4m).

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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Ride coming to end for Bridgestone workers</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=145</link>
			<description><![CDATA[EMOTIONS are “like a roller coaster” as work begins to wind down at Bridgestone’s Salisbury plant for its closure on April 30. 

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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Dunlop, Bridgestone fined over cartel </title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=143</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Major suppliers of rubber hose, including Dunlop and Bridgestone, have been fined more than $8 million for setting up a cartel.

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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>POLAND: Bridgestone to expand Poznan tyre plant</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=144</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Bridgestone will will invest EUR105m (US$142.9m) to expand passenger vehicle tyre production at its plant in Poznan, Poland, by 5,600 units a day.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Daniels signs workplace gun law</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=142</link>
			<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mitch Daniels on Thursday signed into a law a measure allowing employees to have guns in their locked vehicles while at work.

The move came despite business groups and large manufacturers urging him to veto House Bill 1065.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bridgestone Sets Vietnam Sales Company </title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=139</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Bridgestone Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. has established a new tire sales company for the Vietnamese market.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 5 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bridgestone continues OTR plant expansion</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=140</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The expansion of Bridgestone Corp.'s OTR tire plant in Kitakyushu, Japan, is three months ahead of schedule, company officials report.

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			<pubDate>Mon, 5 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>TENNESSEE WORKING FAMILIES CALL FOR GOOD JOBS NOW, TELL BIG WALL STREET BANKS TO REPAY TAXPAYER FUNDS</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=136</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PLEASE JOIN US on Thursday, April 1, 2010, from 11:30 to 1:00 pm, in front of Bank of America, corner of 4th Avenue and Union Street downtown Nashville. We will join together in front of  Bank of America to demand good jobs now.  
 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Ag economy's growth puts Firestone plant in good spot </title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=137</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Iowa's farms are twice the size they were 50 years ago and they produce between four and five times more corn and soybeans.

Today's tractors weigh up to 10 times more than their ancestors of 1960, and the two- to four-row combine of the 1960s has given way to the 12- to 16-row harvester of today.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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