Cooper Tire Locks Out Workers !

Cooper Tire to Resume Negotiations with Locked-Out Workers
Wednesday, December 28, 2011,

Union workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s Findlay Ohio, plant have been locked out since Nov. 28, 2011

Locked out union workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. will not meet again to negotiate a new contract until 2012, theToledo Blade reports. More than 1,000 workers have been locked out of Cooper's (NYSE:CTB) Findlay manufacturing plant since Nov. 28, and both sides have filed formal complaints of bad-faith bargaining with the National Labor Relations Board , the newspaper reports. Negotiators from both sides met 45 times from Sept. 7 to Nov. 28 but, since the lockout, have convened only four times, the newspaper reports. Negotiations are expected to resume next week, the newspaper reports.

Editorial : Have Company`s discovered a way to break local unions ? Lock them out ! Then proceed to wait until, it`s workers are hurting, in the meantime, supplying tires from foreign plants ? Sounds like it to this writer. In these bad faith negotiations, workers lose and company`s win big. Big Bonus`s for their CEO`S ! You Bet`Cha !