{"id":5345,"date":"2026-09-27T08:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/u-s-targets-yokohama-tire-plant-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:05:59","slug":"u-s-targets-yokohama-tire-plant-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/u-s-targets-yokohama-tire-plant-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Targets Yokohama Tire Plant in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 27, 2026 (STL.News) The United States has formally asked Mexico to investigate allegations that workers at a Yokohama Rubber tire facility in Coahuila were denied rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, escalating a labor dispute at a company simultaneously expanding production in Mexico after closing a longtime tire factory in Virginia. The Office of the United States Trade Representative invoked the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement\u2019s Rapid Response Labor Mechanism, or RRM, on Sept. 25 concerning Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mexico, S.A. de C.V. The action followed a petition alleging retaliation against workers involved in union<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/u-s-targets-yokohama-tire-plant-in-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 27, 2026 (STL.News) The United States has formally asked Mexico to investigate allegations that workers at a Yokohama Rubber tire facility in Coahuila were denied rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, escalating a labor&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5347,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}