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2008 American Axle strike contains important lessons for Volvo workers
After more than a month on the picket line, 2,900 autoworkers have returned to the assembly line at Volvo’s New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia, the largest Volvo truck plant in the world. The mood is restive, as workers discuss and process the betrayal that has just taken place.
The Volvo workers voted down three sellout tentative agreements pushed by the United Auto Workers. But last week the union forced a re-vote on the third rejected agreement, claimed that it passed by 17 votes, and sent the workers back to work without publishing the full contract. What is known is that the pro-company deal substantially raises workers’ health care costs and keeps wage increases for many below inflation along with other concessions.
really be something to see,” said Cindy.
“You can’t just trim it a little bit,” I asked, “you did a good job last time.”
“It’s beyond anything I could possibly do,” said Cindy.
“Well, you know this whole pandemic makes it hard for a guy to get a haircut,” he said, “ya know, it’s hard to get an appointment. Just sayin’.”
“Ahem, places are open,” she said.
With this little conversation the gauntlet had been thrown down, and unbeknownst to my wife her husband had shifted gears, hard; he’d power-shifted from first to second gear. I’d pushed the haircut thing as far as I possibly could and knew it was time to do something. (For those of you who have driven a stick shift, I know you get the drift of this power shifting metaphor.) The next morning while taking Maddox out for a run, I called Pete’s Barber Shop in Peace Dale to finally make an appointment. As it turned out, Pete Tsagaroulis who I’ve known since he was a student at Narragansett Hi
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