USW launches TV & Radio spots questioning the safety of Goodyear tires made by replacement workers!
Ouch … United Steelworkers union (USW), which represents Goodyear’s striking workers has just released a series of Radio & TV spots calling into question the safety of tires made by Goodyear’s replacement workers!
In the TV add shown above (check out the radio spot bellow), USW reminds consumers what happened a few years ago when Firestone (the don’t actually say the name but it's obvious…) used replacement workers during a strike! The 30-second spot shows an... "unidentified" SUV flipping out of control.
We remind you that 15,000 Goodyear workers (all USW members) in 16 plants in
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