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Defying strike vote, UAW forces Volvo Truck workers to remain on job in Virginia Although Volvo Heavy Duty truck workers in southwestern Virginia voted by 96.8 percent to authorize strike action if a new agreement was not reached by time their five-year contract expired on March 15, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has kept workers on the job. Defying the strike vote, the UAW signed a 30-day contract extension, which expires on April 16, giving the company ample time to prepare for a strike. There are 3,500 workers at the New River Valley (NVR) manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia. Volvo Truck workers are employed at facilities in Allentown and Middletown, Pennsylvania, Hagerstown and Baltimore, Maryland, and Jacksonville, Florida, but the UAW keeps workers at the Virginia plant under a separate labor agreement. In October 2019, the Mack-Volvo workers in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Florida struck for two weeks while the UAW kept NRV workers on the job even though they were hit

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