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After work, the Mal Haley, Nova Scotia loves to watch the sun rise over the Lahave River – 12 hours is a soothing diary after heavy heat and piercing alarms.
Haley watches the sunshine in the light of the Atlantic in the Michelin Tire factory in a night.
Once the river gave the city life. Today, the bridge is Michelin.
Haley was exhausted. Twenty-four hours ago, his three-year-old son William revived him and took him for day care and continued the work of the day. Did not sleep since then.
All his life called Haley Bridgewater’s house. Works in Michelin factory for almost 10 years. Now 28, one-third of his life has prepared tires.
Despite a long time, Haley loves his job. Even prefer working nights. To make a living in Michelin, lets spend time with friends and family – the best friend and uncle both work there. Inside the plant, a staff of five people and manages a 4.5-meter-high tire machine. Although stressful, the responsibility agrees.
Donald Trump built stress since January 20 when he swears as US President. He pushes to the United States and pressing corporations that increase the concerns that Michelin can go to the south.
A company city
1,270 people in the bridge waters are working in the michelin plant. The king of the French tires inspects more than 25 percent of the city’s work old people.
Each company is an ecosystem in the city, Dalhousie University’s Economy Professor Stephane Mechoulan says. The company has changed, all the city.
Factory – Can produce 7,500 tires daily – NOVA Scotia is the center of the manufacturing industry. The largest exports of the rubber province, thanks to Michelin tires. In 2023, Tire export from Nova Scotia to the United States was about $ 1.2 billion.
This is $ 139,000 worth of tires exported to the United States every hour.
Trump earlier this year when the tariffs for Canadian goods took many questions. Will there be a job as usual for the world’s leading tire manufacturer? Will there be floors in Nova Scotia? Or can the scenario in worst – can Trump’s stiffness be transferred to the United States?
So far there have been michelin tires largely more than Trump tariffs. However, taking into account the liquid events of the last few months, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is not surprising to meet Michelin directly in France.
Nova has three Michelin factories in Scotia. Bridgewater has been in the largest house since 1971; Others are in Grandtone near the New Glasgow and Watervo in Annapolis Valley.
About a million square feet – 59 hockey rinks – in size, you can not miss the Bridgewater plant from 103 of the highway. In fact, there is his own speech.
On a global scale, Michelin was estimated at $ 35.9 billion. Mechoulan thinks that financial hit. But there is no obligation. If Michel’s plugs or slow their production, Mechoulan Bridgewater predicts that he will live a “chain reaction of suffering”.
Inside the plant
The next day at 6:15 was Haley, 45 minutes before the planned to work, attracts the plant. He then scans his key card and passes through a tournament – one of several gaps in a fence overlapped with thorny wire. It is a sign we produce on top of the entrance.
Haley comes early for loving to chat with his colleagues in one of the many pause rooms. A small place from the rules of chairs, table and michilin and terminology, until the floor ceiling. People where he sits is more than friends; They are more often “sees more than my own family.”
Haley is “too much worried” about the future of Michel’s workers. But he knew that the situation was volatile.
“God knows what happens.”
Haley rely on higher levels to sort him. Meanwhile tires do not do themselves.
Growing up, Haley Michelin and Bridgewater thought it was confused. Everyone knows that this is a tire city. The best friend of his father works for Deryck Bolivar Michelin. Still, “It did not understand how much people in Michelin work until you work until working until it worked. Haley.
“When I go to Walmart, many things, I run from work to someone.”
Bolivar Haley’s first boss in Michelin. Combined with familiar face, useful recommendations and recommendations, a new job has been made a little easier.
In one of the first meetings with the team, Bolivar accidentally reminded Haley by a childhood monkey – the princess. At the plant, the nickname clung for years. Sometimes he is still like a princess – the more recent nickname, in addition to the problem.
As difficulty in Canada, Haley remains optimistic. For hope, he looks at Micheli’s bridge water. The plant only completed a $ 300 million expansion – $ 194.4 million, came with the rest of the michel and the rest of the federal governments.
Michelin “poured so much money on our plant,” he said. “They will do their best to keep him open.”
Driving new roads
Francois Michelin, in 1969 he chose Nova Scotia to be the first issue home (now there is 35 production facilities, including 35 production facilities, including 35 production facilities.
Today, Michelin is the main office of North America Greenville, SC – conservative, in the republic. About 70 percent of the things that Michelin sold in the United States in the United States, the company, which lasts about 85 percent when Canada includes Canada, said the analysts are in the last call.
Since the day he came to Canada, Michelin Nova Scotia was an employer and a decisive trade asset. During the year, 3,600 depends on the wheel manufacturer to feed themselves and their families.
The company offers a certain contribution to a certain contribution to a particular contribution to a pension, dental coverage and 3.8 weeks strike – plus free tires.
Its communities and employees love to say that Micheli is generous and placed. No mascot seems softer than Michel’s man. However, the company also argued in the province.
In 1979 – “Shame!” Legislation – the Conservative Government of Nova Scotia, Michelin Bill, adjusted to the law of the Trade Union known as Bill. To combine the bill to unite, any company with more than one company in Nova Scotia should mark the majority of employees in all places. Opposition and People’s Project Protested.
The bill was prepared to unite by employees in Grandtone and Mishchel’s legislation is never specially noted. A day after the bill, a new Michelin plant was declared in Waterville.
Nova Scotia NDP announced that if it was elected, Michelin canceled the bill. However, the NDP Premier Darrell, once elected to power in 2009, did not exceeded the Dexter. He said, “There are no fights in the battles that occurred 30 years ago,” he said.
The government of the Nova Scotia went to great lengths to keep Michelin in the province. To set the plants, Nova Scotia Crown Corporation spent more money than Michelin himself.
City’s response
Bridgewater Mayor David Mitchell said he believed that Micheli dedicated to the city as the company’s employees were in the company’s office. He has faithfully confidence in the company that makes a small town.
Mitchell is more concerned because it slowed a production in a shutdown. Michelin would feel a lot of human influence for each withdrawal.
“1200 jobs are about 8,000 to 12,000 jobs.”
Whether driving 100 trucks, both at the plant or local restaurant and shops, will carry more loads than plant workers.
Mitchell, current political and economic tensions are like an animal that keeps food for winter. The only difference? The animal does not know that the winter really comes.
“Did you start to close your money and slowly?” Mitchell asks.
“Or is it a mess to get away?”
