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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:17:16 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>A Tire Plant Closes, A Community Withers</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=133</link>
			<description><![CDATA[*From AFL-CIO

The snow-softened rubble of the Continental General Tire plant at Mayfield, Ky., reminds me of a scene in “New in Town.” We rented the movie from a video store the other night.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Local charities receive $830,000 in grants from Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament </title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=131</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Officials from the PGA Tour, Northern Ohio Golf Charities and Bridgestone Americas Inc. recently doled out more than $830,000 from the 2009 World Golf Championship-Bridgestone Invitational to 43 local charities]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bridgestone sees opportunity in arena naming deal</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=132</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As Metro tries to get its hands around the financial health of the Nashville Predators, Bridgestone Americas Inc. is making a major investment in the hockey team's future.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>WTO to Investigate Chinese Tire Tariffs</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=130</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The World Trade Organization said Monday it is going to investigate American import taxes on Chinese tire. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Tire workers left out in the cold by globalization trend</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=129</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas. Here’s your $5,000 pay cut.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Gajah Tunggal Eyeing US Tire Market After Tariff Raised on Chinese Products</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=128</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Indonesia’s biggest tire maker, PT Gajah Tunggal, expects tire sales to increase next year as car and motorcycle sales rebound and the US looks to import more non-Chinese tires. 

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			<pubDate>Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Expect more price increases</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=127</link>
			<description><![CDATA["Within the last several days, several tire manufacturers have announced price increases in North America to cover the cost of rising raw materials," says Ludwig, a managing director with KeyBanc Capital Markets. "This is positive for the industry and consistent with the note we wrote in early November following our trip to the SEMA show.

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			<pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Closed Firestone factory to hold auction of old equipment, parts on Thursday</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=126</link>
			<description><![CDATA[NOBLESVILLE IN.     It's will be the end of an era Thursday morning when Firestone Industrial Products' air-spring factory in Noblesville sells at auction the last remaining bits and pieces of a 400,000-square-foot plant that at one time employed 1,500 workers.

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			<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=125</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Leo W. GerardPresident, United Steelworkers International

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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>US OKs 8th probe of China pricing in 2009</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=124</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A U.S. trade panel on Friday approved the eighth government investigation this year into charges of unfair Chinese pricing practices in a case in which U.S. companies want a nearly 100 percent duty or more on $382 million of imported steel pipes.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Rotating Shift Vote Results</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=123</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Motion fails 131 Yea 205 Nay]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Contract Vote Results</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=122</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Local 1155 contract vote results:

69% Yes

31% No

Counts completed at 10: 35 a.m. Oct. 2nd 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Goodyear touts benefits of USW pact</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=121</link>
			<description><![CDATA[AKRON (Sept. 30, 2009)—Goodyear likes the cost-savings aspects of its new four-year labor contract with the United Steelworkers as cost-saving, but it said that more importantly the agreement will change the way it runs its unionized tire plants in the U.S.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>TN Peterbilt plant will close for good</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=120</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Madison site shuttered since 2008 labor dispute]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>U.S. union files new trade case against China</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=119</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH  - The United Steelworkers union, fresh from persuading President Barack Obama to restrict tire imports from China, filed a new case on Wednesday asking for duties on coated paper from both China and India]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Warren County Summary available</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=118</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Summary available online.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>INFORMATIONAL MEETING/ RATIFICATION NOTICE</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=117</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The following dates and times have been scheduled for informational/ratification meetings]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Tentative Agreement Reached</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=116</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Frame Work of a tentative agreement was reached...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>U.S. Says China Violated Trade Law</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=115</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In one of the largest U.S.-China trade cases ever, the U.S. Commerce Department has issued a preliminary finding that Chinese steel pipe producers have received government subsidies in violation of trade law, helping them overrun the competition]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Goodyear workers to vote</title>
			<link>http://www.usw1155.org/news_detail.asp?news_id=113</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Topeka employees at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. are set to vote this week on a proposed labor agreement that would protect their plant and others around the country from closing for the next four years.

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			<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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