Goodyear to Lay Off 330 at North Carolina Plant

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oodyear Tire and Rubber Co. will lay off 330 hourly workers as part of a temporary idling of a North Carolina factory that manufactures steel wiring used in commercial truck tires, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

The layoffs are tied to reduced tire production at other Goodyear plants, which stem from a recent strike by members of the United Steelworkers union at 12 of the tire manufacturer’s U.S. plants, Bloomberg said.

Goodyear plans to keep the plant’s salaried workers on a little while longer and possibly move them to other sites while the strike lasts, Bloomberg reported.