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Goodyear Fayetteville plant eliminates ~200 jobs via buyouts

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EMPLOYEES AFFECTED
200
SHARE OF WORKFORCE
~0.3%
200 OF 62,000 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA.

Based on news reporting.

Summary

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. eliminated 200 jobs at its Fayetteville, N.C., manufacturing plant through voluntary buyout packages, avoiding involuntary layoffs. The company had announced it needed to eliminate 200 jobs by late November; about 200 workers accepted the buyouts and roughly 135 had been processed out as of the latest report. The buyouts were authorized under a temporary union agreement approved in October that allowed payments of $2,000 per year of service up to $50,000. Prior to the reductions, the plant employed 2,750 hourly and salaried workers, most of them union members, and no further job cuts are anticipated according to the union president.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company cut 200 jobs in NC.

That is roughly 0.3% of the 62,000 people Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 4 layoff events at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company since March 2026, including 170 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 2 additional events known from news reporting.

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Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyGT
Consumer Discretionary · 62,000 employees
4
EVENTS TRACKED
170
JOBS IN WARN FILINGS
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CREATED OCT 23, 2026LAST UPDATED OCT 23, 2026