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Judge Dismisses U.S. Lawsuit over Goodyear Plant Closing in France
A U.S. District Court Judge has thrown out a $4 million lawsuit against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over to the company's plan to shut down a factory in Amiens, France, Bloomberg News reports.
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A U.S. District Court Judge has thrown out a $4 million lawsuit against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over to the company's plan to shut down a factory in Amiens, France, Bloomberg News reports.
Goodyear has been trying to close the facility, which employs about 1,200 workers, for a year. The lawsuit was filed last April in Ohio by a worker at the French facility and the factory's works council in hopes of establishing class-action status.
The complaint says Goodyear illegally interfered with the labor agreement between workers and the French facility and cut output in violation of a 2009 injunction by a French court. Worker pay at Amiens is based on production.
But the U.S. judge said nothing in the complaint points to a provision in the agreement that was breached. She notes that the pact doesn't guarantee production levels, prohibit Goodyear from reducing output or prevent the company from shuttering the plant entirely.
The lawsuit was backed by the militant CGT union, which briefly held two Goodyear executives hostage earlier this month in a bid to win larger severance packages for workers.
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