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Protesting Goodyear workers chant slogans in front of the company's French headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison on March 7, 2013. Goodyear announced in January 2013 that it would close a factory in Amiens, northern France that employs 1,250 people by the end of 2014.
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French CRS riot police stand guard in front of tire maker Goodyear Dunlop France headquarters during a demonstration against job cuts in Rueil Malmaison, March 7, 2013.
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Protestors scuffle with French CRS riot police in front of Goodyear Dunlop France headquarters during a demonstration against job cuts in Rueil Malmaison, France, March 7, 2013.
Remy De La Mauviniere / AP
Goodyear employees scuffle with riot policemen during a demonstration against layoffs in front of Goodyear headquarters in Rueil Malmaison, west of Paris, March 7, 2013.
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A protesting Goodyear France worker faces riot police in the western Paris suburb of Rueil-Malmaison on March 7, 2013 during a board meeting.
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Riot policemen protect themselves during a demonstration Goodyear employees, at the Goodyear headquarters in Rueil Malmaison, March 7, 2013.
AP reports: Burning the very fruit of their labor, workers from Goodyear clashed with police outside the tire-maker's French headquarters Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to save their jobs.
Goodyear has been trying to restructure or close its plant in northern France for five years in the face of a shrinking European car market. The workers say Goodyear wants to shift the work to China, where tires can be made more cheaply and which is closer to booming markets. Full story
Riot police and demonstrators protesting the planned closure of a Gooodyear factory in France clashed outside the company's French headquarters. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.
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The good workers of Goodyear have as much chance to save their jobs as Goodyear has to save the Hindenburg, I think they are going have to retread their hopes.
At least the French are fighting for their jobs instead of rolling over and agreeing with the corporate rapists at the top that call themselves CEOs and COOs and CFO's and Board Members that the shareholder profit is more important than feeding their own children the way American workers do.
Cher Blathering Papagigi, Everybody knows you are useless. You don't have to keep on confirming it.
Papagigi, you might want to do a little research into what the average "work" day was for the average French Goodyear employee......There is a reason why they are loosing their jobs....
from what has been reported in the european press the company probably could be saved if the union workers would agree to some pay/benefit cuts...or take less paid breaks and actually work for there paycheck.sort of like UAW employee's in the USA...and no remarks from the UAW because you know it's true...
Is that Mr. Bean in the first photo?
Goodyear closed a plant, and a corporate office, in my hometown, in 1968. Lot of us out of work after that. Can happen here, can happen there, can happen anywhere. But we didn't want to smash anyone's skull for it. We went on with it.
Ah the French. Always the fools. Lie down with socialists, get up with no jobs. Bon voyage!
I was a member of a union shop, from 1991 to 1998. Healthcare worker's union. I watched them drive that place to the ground. Greedy effer's just couldn't get enough. Mandatory raises built in every 6 months, generuos healthcare benefits, all kinds of garbage. Drove them out of business. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, east coast, from Florida to New York.
If these guys had worked as hard on their jobs as they are protesting their plant closing, they might be getting overtime, which apparently for them is anything past 4 hours a day.
It was nice to see they were peaceful in their negotiating....(Heavy on the sarcasm)....I wonder how long it will be before most of the heavy industry and manufacturing leaves France due to the ridiculously high tax rates and the lousy work ethic.....Looks like Atlas is shrugging....