Who is Volvo Group Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg?
Last Friday, Volvo Truck workers in Dublin, Virginia courageously voted down the third concessions contract brought to them by the United Auto Workers (UAW). Now the UAW is trying to impose the contract, which would raise health care costs and represent a wage cut when inflation is factored in, despite workers having just voted it down. A repeat vote is schedule for the factory’s nearly 3,000 workers on Wednesday.
A statement from the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee published Monday calls for workers to oppose the UAW’s attempt to smother the strike and lay down for Volvo.
German Bender
The proposed European Union directive on minimum wages has met strong criticism in Scandinavia. But up to now the debate has lacked specific instances of what statutory minimum wages would mean for the Swedish labour market.
A key feature of the Swedish industrial-relations system is that unions and employers regulate most aspects of the labour market through collective agreements. The Swedish or rather Nordic model has repeatedly shown its vitality, solving difficult problems and contributing to high employment and wage growth, while largely avoiding government intervention. This model is threatened by the envisaged EU minimum-wage legislation.
Anders Kjellberg
A profile of Volvo Group: What the striking New River Valley workers are up against
Nearly 3,000 workers in Dublin, Virginia, are entering the second week of their strike against Volvo Trucks North America. The strike began June 7 after the workers rejected by 90 percent a second pro-company contract backed by the United Auto Workers union. In the first week, it became ever more apparent that workers confront a two-front war. On the one hand, the corporation cut off health care benefits to workers and their families, attempted to continue production with strikebreakers protected by Virginia state troopers, and sent out letters of termination to intimidate strikers. On the other, the UAW has done everything to isolate the striking workers and has done nothing to inform autoworkers and other workers about the strike. Although the UAW sits on a strike fund worth nearly $800 million, it plans to keep workers on starvation benefits of $275 a week.
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