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The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans is adding its voice in support of the economic incentive proposal offered Goodyear by Tyler City officials, the Tyler Economic Development Council, Smith County, Tyler Junior College, the state of Texas and East Texas businesses aimed at preventing the closure of Tyler's Goodyear plant, TARA president Victor Pauly has announced.
On Thursday, October 5, the United Steelworkers Local 746L of Tyler walked off the job after learning that Goodyear continues to propose the closure of the plant despite the best efforts of the union, community leaders, business interests and state and local officials. According to workers at the plant this is the first strike at the facility in nearly 30 years.
"If the plant closes, the economic impact will affect the entire region of East Texas," Pauly said. "The effect on area working families and retirees will be devastating, especially at a time when Social Security guarantees, pensions and other retirement benefits, Medicare, and Medicaid are under assault in Washington."
A special report in Friday's Oct. 6 Tyler Morning Telegraph measured the impact
on the city of Tyler alone amounting to $10 million. The plant employs 1,075
workers with an annual payroll of $70.3 million.
Pauly is urging the Alliance's 80,000 members to add their voices in support
of Local 746L, and community, business and state leaders in fighting to prevent
this economic catastrophe.
The TARA is a grassroots activist group whose members come from working families, unions and community and faith-based organizations. Its mission is to educate, organize and mobilize older Texans and working families in preserving, protecting and strengthening policies and programs which affect them.
--Shane Fox, Vice President TARA, Tyler
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