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UAW Rejects Tentative Agreement with Volvo Trucks North America
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GREENSBORO, N.C., June 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Volvo Trucks North America today announced that employees represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) rejected a new six-year labor agreement covering approximately 2,900 members of UAW Local #2069 at the New River Valley truck assembly operations in Dublin, Virginia. We are committed to the collective bargaining process, and remain confident that we will ultimately be able to reach a mutually beneficial agreement, said NRV Vice President and General Manager Franky Marchand.
Negotiations began on February 8, 2021, and the negotiating teams reached the latest tentative agreement on May 20, 2021.