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UAW-backed contract includes new attacks on Volvo Truck retirees or by text at (540) 307-0509. Nearly 3,000 workers at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia will be voting this Sunday on a six-year labor agreement backed by the United Auto Workers union. Rank-and-file workers are actively opposing the deal, which is only a slightly modified version of a previous UAW-backed deal workers decisively rejected last month. There are many elements of the proposed agreement that have enraged workers. Over the last three contracts, the Swedish multinational and the UAW have pointe...

The Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia has issued the following statement opposing the latest tentative agreement handed down by United Auto W orkers (UAW). As the statement explains, there is no substantive difference between the current tentative agreement and the tentative agreement that workers resoundingly voted down on May 16.

The first step in ending the assault on jobs, wages and working conditions is to form a rank-and-file committee independent of the pro-company union to demand an audit of the contract vote supervised by the workers themselves.

The 2,900 members of UAW Local 2069 hit the bricks April 17, shutting down the largest Volvo truck manufacturing facility in the world. But 13 days later many were dismayed when the union sent them back to work and said they would be told later what had been bargained. Over the weekend, workers voted by 91 percent to reject the tentative agreement. Photo: DelegateTara, Twitter. Update: On May 20 union officials brought back a second tentative agreement. Workers are organizing to again vote no and petitioning to recall top officers. Factory workers at a Volvo truck plant in southwest Virginia ...

Volvo Workers to UAW: “We won’t accept another contract proposal cooked up behind our backs” After overwhelmingly defeating a United Auto Workers-backed contract last Sunday, rank-and-file Volvo Truck workers in Virginia are stepping up their campaign to prevent the UAW from ramming through another sellout deal. On May 16, workers voted by 91 percent to defeat the agreement, which included pay raises below the rate of inflation, a sharp increase in out-of-pocket medical costs and the continuation of the multi-tier wage system, which traps new hires and lower-seniority workers in a years...