Goodyear Tire & Rubber, USW Reach Tentative Agreement - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (GT) and the United Steelworkers or USW have reached tentative agreement on a new master contract covering about 8,000 employees at six U.S. plants. The tentative agreement was reached Saturday evening, July 27.

Jim Allen, Goodyear's Vice President Global Labor Relations, and Tom Conway, USW Vice President Administration, said the tentative agreement must be approved by a majority of the six local unions representing a majority of the membership.

Ratification votes will be scheduled at the facilities in the near future.

In a separate press release, Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced that Tom Kaczynski has joined the company as vice president of investor relations. He will report to Darren Wells, executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Kaczynski joins Goodyear from Affinia Group Inc., where he had been vice president and corporate treasurer. At Affinia Group, Kaczynski established the company's treasury office and led financing and investor relations activities.

Kaczynski began his career as a design engineer at Caterpillar. He joined Ford Motor Company in 1992 as a financial analyst and later held positions of increased responsibility in marketing and finance, including project manager for relationship marketing and international financing manager. In 2000, he became part of the team responsible for the spin-off of Visteon Corporation from Ford, joining Visteon as director of affiliate financing. He joined Affinia Group in 2005.