Workers at tyre company Goodyear are reported to be “disgusted, upset and angry” at the decision to close its only UK manufacturing site. All 330 workers at the Wolverhampton plant are expected to lose their jobs.
Wayne Devaney, who has been at the plant for 27 years, said the workforce had “grafted really hard and done everything it could to make the factory viable”, and that the announcement had “come out of the blue”.
Eric Fric, MD of Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK, blamed the closure on inexpensive imports, the cost of transport and “the strength of the pound”.
The plant, which has been at the site since 1927, is due to close by the summer of 2017.
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