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plants in the United States, employing some 73,000 workers.
The company's recipe for the LaVergne plant is light on cheerleading and group calisthenics, heavy on the basics: "tighter quality standards, new equipment, and a stricter management approach." Bridgestone met union wage demands but also won concessions on work rules (e.g., top production jobs are now assigned on the basis of worker merit, not seniority). It has retrained American m...