Michelin Ardmore Plant Closing!

[SoonerP226]

Maybe I am just too hard on vehicle tires.
Every one of mine were 15" and maybe that is where the issue lies.
The last time I ran those brands was over 20 years ago.
Maybe they got better.
My son said his Semi truck tires in Michelin are really good.

Twenty years ago, I wouldn’t have bought Michelins, either. The ones I’ve bought over the last 18 years have been really good tires. I forget the full specs of the 17s I bought (something like 245/55-ZR17), but the ones on my truck are 265/65-R18 and the ones on my mom’s car are 255/45-YR20.

 

[Coug91]

And michelins are about the highest priced tires around. $1300.00 for a set of P265/75 16's at Sam's.

Just paid $950 for a set of 4 CC2s @ Costco.

 

[Raido Free America]

Wow. Kinda bad news.

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Is this michelin tire plant moving to a SLAVE LABOR THIRD WORLD NATION LIKE COMMUNIST CHINA? The communist Party is the one getting RICH, and MORE POWERFUL, not the poor people under their heel!! Communist China has gone from a OX CART technology, peasant nation, that couldn't even defend themselves from Imperial Japan, to the UNDISPUTED NUMBER TWO ECNOMIC, AND MILITARY POWER, ON EARTH, IN OUR LIFE TIME!! IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE THEM EVEN MORE POWERFUL BY CONTINUING TO BUY THEIR COUNTERFEIT JUNK? AND SENDING OUR MANUFACTURING FACILITIES OVER THERE? The Confederacy was so wealthy they didn't need to manufacture anything, they could just buy it!! Then they got blockaded, and could no longer buy the things they DESPERATELY NEEDED, and didn't have the tools, know-how, of facilities to make it!!

 

[Jgreen30]

The 1400 people they list as losing their jobs is also only michelin employees. There's probably close to that in contract employees. It's also going to effect all the plumbing and electrician companies that are always there. Definitely going to put a hurt on Ardmore.

 

[dennishoddy]

And michelins are about the highest priced tires around. $1300.00 for a set of P265/75 16's at Sam's.

A set of 20” on our F-250 is a lot higher, but got 55 thousand miles with a lot more left pulling our 5th wheel all over the western part of the US. You get what you pay for.

 

[THAT Gurl]

The 1400 people they list as losing their jobs is also only michelin employees. There's probably close to that in contract employees. It's also going to effect all the plumbing and electrician companies that are always there. Definitely going to put a hurt on Ardmore.

I lived in Ardmore in '77, '78 and '79. You were in tall cotton if you snagged any job at Goodyear.

I remember when Halliburton left Duncan and went to Houston. Duncan never recovered. Towns that depend on one major employer never seem to bounce back when that employer leaves.

 

[dennishoddy]

From what I've heard from a few UAW members, the blame rests largely on Shawn Fain and the socialists (apparently, they are literal, card-carrying socialists) he has as his closest advisors, not with the UAW membership nor with the CEOs. Fain's demands were pipe dreams that would kill the Big 3, and he kept them non-negotiable for far too long.

The UAW members I heard from wanted to vote on Ford's offer a week or two ago, but they think Fain is more interested in unionizing the foreign makers' US plants, and especially the Tesla plant (which was a union plant when it was operated by GM and Toyota) than he is in looking out for the interests of the current Big 3 UAW employees.

The unions are why we have a rust belt in this country and steel manufacturing moved overseas.
They couldn’t accept modernization of the steel industry that would of course cut some jobs. They chose to lose every job as a consequence.
Unions do not have the interest of the workers as a priority for long term employment. Or they are just stupid fudds.
They don’t realize that allowing robots to do some work requires more technical people to be hired to maintain, program and operate the fleet of robots, sometimes resulting in a higher salaried workforce that would be able to be screwed out of more union dues than a person with an air powered screwdriver on an assembly line to install a screw in a door handle, wherapon their job is done until the next door comes down the line for another handle to be installed.
Yes, I’ve worked for the Teamsters Union and the IBEW. I didn’t like them funneling my dues to the Democratic Party either.

 

[dennishoddy]

I lived in Ardmore in '77, '78 and '79. You were in tall cotton if you snagged any job at Goodyear.

I remember when Halliburton left Duncan and went to Houston. Duncan never recovered. Towns that depend on one major employer never seem to bounce back when that employer leaves.

Doesn’t pay as well but that casino complex in Duncan sure employs a lot of people. One huge facility.

 

[THAT Gurl]

Doesn’t pay as well but that casino complex in Duncan sure employs a lot of people. One huge facility.

True. It's better than nothing but certainly not better than Halliburton was.

 

[dennishoddy]

True. It's better than nothing but certainly not better than Halliburton was.

We bought a Computer controlled tubing bender from Halliburton in the late 90’s so I got a full tour of the facility. Sad to see those high paying jobs go away.