Goodyear to buy Texarkana-based Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in $2.5 billion deal Goodyear Wingfoot 3 Blimp July 2019 (Source: KSWO) By Fred Gamble | February 22, 2021 at 1:26 PM CST - Updated February 23 at 2:23 AM
TEXARKANA (KSLA) - Since 1964, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has been associated with Texarkana, but as of Monday, Feb. 22, work there will continue, but in the near future, the name will be different.
Representatives with United Steelworkers Union met in a scheduled meeting Monday morning to finalize a collective bargaining agreement with Cooper Tire & Rubber Company. Before the meeting began, Union President Kerry Halter received a surprise announcement from corporate headquarters.
“It threw us a curve ball. We are not sure what that entails. Sometime it’s good news, sometime it’s bad,” said Halter.