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Volvo workers issue statement: “Where we are, what we’ve gone through and what’s next in our struggle”
by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File
Committee as workers at the New River Valley plant begin to return to work today after the conclusion of a more than month-long strike last week.
Last Wednesday, the United Auto Workers union claimed that its third tentative agreement with Volvo passed by a margin of just 17 ballots in a revote on a concessions contract that workers had rejected just days earlier. Despite the end of the strike and the imposition of the company’s terms, workershave told the WSWS
Anger persists among Volvo workers following UAW claims of narrow contract ratification
Anger continues to simmer among Volvo workers at the New River Valley plant in southwestern Virginia following the United Auto Workers union’s declaration Wednesday night that a re-vote of a contract workers had rejected last week resulted in ratification by a margin of just 17 ballots.
Workers striking outside of the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia [Credit Facebook//UAW Local 2069]
Many workers have responded with accusations of ballot fraud and calls for a recount, which the UAW has thus far met with total silence. The re-vote on a third tentative agreement between the UAW and Volvo had been called by the union in defiance of workers’ previous rejection of the very same deal just a few days earlier by 60 percent.
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