Volvo Trucks workers denounce UAW officials, call for decisive rejection in contract revote
Hundreds of angry Volvo Trucks workers flooded the United Auto Workers Local 2069 union hall in Dublin, Virginia early Monday morning to confront UAW officials who agreed to hold a revote on a tentative agreement that nearly two-thirds of the workforce rejected last Friday. Defying the will of the majority, the UAW will hold a ratification vote on the concessionary agreement this Wednesday.
Striking Volvo Truck workers [Source: UAW Local 2069/Facebook]
On Sunday, Volvo declared that the tentative deal, the third UAW-backed agreement to be defeated by workers since May, was its “last, best and final” offer. Management said it would implement the agreement on Monday and urged striking workers to break ranks and cross the picket lines to resume work under the terms of the rejected contract.
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Volvo to resume production at Virginia plant despite strike
DUBLIN, Va. (AP) Volvo Trucks North America says it will restart production at a plant in southwestern Virginia despite an ongoing strike and a lack of a labor deal between the company and a union representing nearly 3,000 workers. The company said in a news release Sunday that it will implement terms and conditions of a tentative agreement that was endorsed by leaders of the United Auto Workers union on July 1. Workers at the tractor-trailer assembly plant in Dublin had rejected that tentative pact. Union spokesman Brian Rothenberg said in an email to The Associated Press on Sunday evening that the “strike is ongoing.” He said that a new vote is scheduled Wednesday on the company’s “last, best and final offer.”