Whatever the pretensions of the UAW, the upsurge in anti-Asian hate crimes are a completely foreseeable, and indeed inevitable, outgrowth of its promotion of “America First” nationalism.
Workers are countering union threats of a prolonged strike with a call to prepare to for mass pickets, opening of the strike fund and unity with other workers struggles.
UAW-backed contract includes new attacks on Volvo Truck retirees
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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 pointed to supposed economic difficulties to justify demands for concessions, including the introduction of a multitier wage and benefit system that condemns young workers to inferior pay and denies them fully paid pension benefits.
Photo courtesy of BigStock/ISerg The Detroit Bureau reports that United Auto Workers, in move that UAW president Rory Gamble said was long overdue, announced it was setting up a new LGBTQ caucus to operate as part of the union’s established committees on Civil and Human Rights, putting more emph .
With the ratification vote scheduled for Sunday, rank-and-file Volvo Truck workers are stepping up their campaign to defeat the proposed six-year deal.