Following the announcement of hundreds of job cuts at Belvidere Assembly in Illinois, Stellantis is preparing to carry out more layoffs at Detroit-area auto plants.
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Autoworkers voice support for Volvo strikers, oppose company-UAW strikebreaking: “All autoworkers should be on strike to support them”
Autoworkers in Detroit and Chicago responded with outrage upon learning of the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) attempt to shut down the five-week strike at Volvo Trucks in Dublin, Virginia. Although workers voted down a third tentative agreement last Friday, the UAW is forcing workers at Volvo’s New River Valley plant to vote on the exact same agreement again this Wednesday and has told them the company will impose the deal no matter which way they vote.
Autoworkers voiced their solidarity with Volvo workers against the attempted strikebreaking by the company and the UAW, and support is growing throughout the auto plants for a united struggle with the Volvo workers, who, like autoworkers in the Midwest and elsewhere, are fighting against substandard pay and benefits, attacks on retirees, the elimination of the eight-hour day and other major conce