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United Steelworkers Release Report Highlighting Continental AG’s Failures in the North American Tire Market

The United Steelworkers recently released an executive report, 20 Years Asleep at the Wheel; Continental Tire’s Failure in North America, highlighting some of the company’s most stunning failures in the North American tire market. Relying on extensive market and industry research, hundreds of interviews with independent tire dealers, and a twenty year relationship with the company, the USW zeros in on major management blunders that have cost shareholders hundreds of millions of dollars... more

Steelworkers File Class Action Lawsuit against Continental Tire for altering Retiree Health Care Benefits
United Steelworkers (USW) retirees and their union have filed a class action lawsuit against Continental Tire North America, Inc. (CTNA) to force the tire maker to uphold its obligations to thousands of retirees, spouses, and surviving spouses to provide retiree medical benefits throughout retirement. The lawsuit was filed December 13, 2006 in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Western ...... more

Goodyear's Attempts to Recruit Replacement Workers from Continental's Charlotte Plant Likely Futile
This week Goodyear has placed ads in several North Carolina newspapers seeking replacement workers for striking United Steelworkers (USW). Modern Industrial Staffing has been hired to find experienced tire builders in this area. Workers from the Continental Tire facility in Charlotte are the only workers in this area skilled at this craft. Well over 1,000 union workers from Continental Tire were laid off when tire production ceased at the Charlotte facility and production was relocated to Brazil...... more

Mecklenburg County Commissioners Issue Support Resolution for Charlotte's Continental Tire Workers
Charlotte, NC -- United Steelworkers (USW) Local 850 members received public support last night in their struggle against their Charlotte employer, Continental Tire. A resolution was passed by the Mecklenburg County Commissioners acknowledging that Continental Tire has abandoned most of its North American operations, leaving thousands of workers, families and communities devastated. ...... more

Mayfield Officials Pass Resolution in Support of Steelworkers at Kentucky Continental Tire Plant
Mayfield Officials Pass Resolution in Support of Steelworkers at Kentucky Continental Tire Plant Environmental Agencies Called On to Keep Mayfield Safe For Immediate Release September 14, 2006 (Mayfield, Kentucky) -- The Mayfield City Council in Kentucky passed a resolution earlier this week in support of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 665 in ...... more

John Edwards Supports Continental Tire Workers in North Carolina
Pittsburgh - John Edwards, former U.S. Senator from North Carolina and vice presidential candidate, has written a letter to Alan Hippe, CEO and president of Continental Tire's North American subsidiary, to express his concern over the German company’s alleged violations of U.S. labor laws and intent to gut health insurance for hundreds of retirees and ...... more

Steelworkers File Complaint with U.S. State Department over Breach of OECD Guidelines by German-based Continental Tire
(Pittsburgh, PA) — The United Steelworkers (USW) has filed a complaint with the U.S. State Department over breaches by Continental Tire, a German-headquartered company, of the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...... more

USW Says Mayfield Closure Not a Surprise; More Proof of Continental's Strategy to Abandon North America
(Pittsburgh, Penna.) -- The United Steelworkers (USW) said today that Continental Tires North America's (CTNA) announcement that it was shutting down its remaining operations at its Mayfield, Kentucky plant was not totally unexpected. "It was obvious to us long ago that Continental ...... more

Labor Board Charges Continental Tire With Unlawfully Relocating Charlotte Production
(Pittsburgh, PA) -- The United Steelworkers (USW) received notification today from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that complaints were issued against Continental North America (CTNA) for unlawfully relocating its Charlotte, North Carolina production. The NLRB charged the company with refusing to provide information requested by the USW during ...... more