Goodyear-Dunlop Closure

Goodyear-Dunlop Closure

Signatories from as far afield as the US, Nigeria and Mexico have added their names to a protest against proposals which would see 330 jobs axed

This is what we should be doing more of?

We should be protesting about these closures and not just laying down. It will most likely close in the end, but at least the workers will have tried to persuade the company to reconsider.

What about people?

This is something that I really resent. As the owner of a tyre shop in Halifax, Yorkshire, UK, my main concern has always been the well-being of my staff. The large corporate companies just tread all over their staff without any concern for their welfare; they just move for profits.

I appreciate

that not all big companies are the same, but the tyre industry has its fair share of bad ones.

The Goodyear-Dunlop closure will be no different. In my lifetime in the tyre industry, both of these huge tyre giants have slowly pulled out of their manufacturing bases in the Birmingham area of the UK.

In my opinion, what they do not seem to realise It knocks the stuffing out of people and communities and would have ruined many lives in past closures.

We never learn how much money

These companies actually save in the end, but in my opinion, the Goodyear-Dunlop closure will only accelerate the slow demise of these once great tyre companies.

I believe that in the not-too-distant future

, companies from outside the UK will move here when they realise that we are a centuries-old economy with great skills and manpower to be used. It only needs incentives from our government to help this to happen and goodbye to Goodyear and Dunlop.

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