by Justin | Sep 7, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, UAW Local 2069
With “help wanted” signs at factories and businesses spreading across the nation, in manufacturing and in service industries, union workers like those at the Volvo site are seizing the opportunity to try to recover some of the bargaining power — and financial security...
by Justin | Jul 12, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, Labor Notes, UAW Local 2069
Auto Workers (UAW) officials are fed up with their striking members at Volvo Trucks in Virginia and are helping the company get them back to work under a contract members have rejected—three times. The strike has been running on and off, through three ratification...
by Justin | Jul 12, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, UAW Local 2069
Volvo Trucks North America says it will restart production at a plant in southwestern Virginia on Monday despite an ongoing strike and the lack of a labor deal between the company and a union representing nearly 3,000 workers. The company said in a news release that...
by Justin | Jul 10, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, UAW Local 2069
United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2069 members rejected for the third time a new labor agreement Friday evening, extending a strike at Volvo Trucks North America’s New River Valley truck assembly operations (NRV) in Dublin, Virginia, that has dragged on for more...
by Justin | Jul 7, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, UAW Local 2069
Striking union workers at a Volvo truck plant in southwestern Virginia are scheduled to vote on a tentative agreement with the company later this week. A number of workers who talked to the Free Press indicated the latest tentative agreement could fare better than the...
by Justin | Jul 2, 2021 | Dublin Volvo Truck, UAW Local 2069
Volvo Trucks North America has announced the company and the United Auto Workers union (UAW) have reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a new six-year contract that would cover about 2,900 employees at the New River Valley truck assembly operations in Dublin....
