More than 12,000 Goodyear workers are on strike today after union and management officials failed to reach agreement on wage-and-benefit and job security issues. Goodyear says its labor costs are already too high and vowed to keep factories running, though it didn't say how it planned to do that. The Goodyear workers are represented by the United Steelworkers Union, which absorbed the United Rubber Workers' Union in 1995. Maryanne Zeleznik of Kent State Public Radio reports.
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