Tire Making Jobs...Leaving America ? You Bet !

Michelin to close Alabama Goodrich plant...

Michelin will close its BF Goodrich tire manufacturing plant in Opelika, Alabama, by Oct. 31 in response to an "unprecedented drop in market demand," the company said Monday. The 46-year-old Opelika plant makes BF Goodrich- and Uniroyal-brand passenger tires with approximately 1,000 workers. Capacity is listed at 14,000 units daily, although Michelin has reduced that in recent months.Michelin said it will consolidate production at the BF Goodrich plants in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Fort Wayne, Ind.

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Bridgestone ups output capacity at plant in China...

Bridgestone Corp. plans to increase the output capacity of its tire plant in China’s Jiangsu Province by about 50 percent, the company told reporters. The production capacity at the passenger car tire plant will be raised by 4,200 radial tires to 12,000 units a day beginning some time between July and December 2011. The total cost of the production boost will be around $98 million, according to Bridgestone.

Editorial : Good paying jobs leaving America ? You betcha` ! Greed at the top ...You know, CEO`s pay, health-care and tax incentives are leaving the American Worker out in the wilderness/unemployed ! If we do not stop this race to the bottom, there will be no America as this writer has known it. It seems that the only descent paying jobs are now those jobs in government, and that`s a shame !