A bad night for Goodyear
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March 7, 2026
Above are a sampling of Journal-Tribune newspaper clippings from the days surrounding the 1976 worker uprising at Goodyear. (Journal-Tribune photo by Michael Williamson)

A bad night for Goodyear

Former worker recalls tensions behind riot ahead of 50th anniversary

By Chad Williamson 

What has long been remembered locally as the “Goodyear riot” of 1976 may have been less an organized uprising and more the boiling over of years of frustration among workers at the Marysville Goodyear conveyor belt plant.

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An external view of the Goodyear plant on Industrial Parkway.

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