Goodyear workers return after three month strike
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co employees resume work at 12 plants in 10 states after a three year contract ended a three month walkout. The deal includes a $1 billion retiree health fund and plans to close the Tyler Texas facility, with production ramping up over weeks as morale improves and savings of about $610 million over three years are pursued. Canadian plants in Ontario also approved separate contracts.
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Texas
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Starbucks to drop trans fats from U S stores
Starbucks plans to remove trans fats from doughnuts muffins and other foods in half its U S stores with a broader rollout to company cafes. The move follows two years of work and targets zero trans fats in several major cities starting midweek with gradual nationwide implementation.
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Starbucks
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Ore
Chicken fat fuels Missouri biodiesel venture
In Dexter Missouri Jerry Bagby and Harold Williams raise 5 million dollars to build a biodiesel plant using chicken fat from Tyson Foods nearby. They plan to blend with soybean oil to produce about 3 million gallons annually as meatpackers expand into renewable fuel, betting on cheaper animal fat stock and rising soybean oil costs.
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Jerry Bagby
Bagby
Missouri
Tyson Foods Inc
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Perdue Farms Inc
Smithfield Foods Inc
Vernon Eidman
University of Minnesota
Eidman
U.S
Inquirer to lay off 68 newsroom workers in restructuring
The Philadelphia Inquirer, now part of Philadelphia Media Holdings, announces 68 newsroom layoffs amid declining circulation and ad revenue. Employees will meet Wednesday to discuss severance pay and health benefits as circulation drops 7.6 percent in the latest six months.
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Pennsylvania
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McClatchy Co
McClatchy
Philadelphia Media Holdings
Brian Tierney
the Papers
Tierney
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Daily News
Wall Street Journal unveils narrower page width
The Wall Street Journal adopts a smaller format reducing width by about three inches to save about 18 million dollars yearly and appeal to younger readers. The redesign trims news space by ten percent, cuts stock tables, boosts online market tracking, and offers half a million free copies and a day of non subscriber web access.
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