Goodyear workers await voting results

Results are expected to be released today from voting by union members on ending a three-month-old strike at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

About 14,000 union members are on strike, including more than 1,000 at Goodyear’s plant in Topeka.

If accepted, the union’s new contract with Goodyear could mean shutting a plant in Texas that employs 1,100 people and the creation of a $1 billion health care fund for Goodyear retirees.

Goodyear and the United Steelworkers union tentatively settled on a three-year labor pact Dec. 22 that would cover 12 Goodyear plants in 10 states and would end the strike that began Oct. 5.