“People are raising hell”: Volvo Trucks worker describes impact of contract one year after strike
Volvo workers now live under a UAW-imposed contract whose “pay raises” are being devoured by runaway inflation.
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The struggle at Volvo
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Volvo worker describes conditions at Volvo New River Valley Plant after UAW betrayed five-week strike
Workers at the plant still have not received copies of the contract, and are discovering loopholes that are cheating them out of holiday pay.
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The lessons of the 2021 Volvo strike
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Volvo workers issue statement: “Where we are, what we’ve gone through and what’s next in our struggle”
This statement was issued by Volvo workers as they begin to return to work at the New River Valley plant today, following the UAW’s betrayal of a more than month-long strike last week.
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Statement of Volvo workers: Vote NO to corporate threats on Wednesday!
The Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee is calling for an overwhelming rejection of the contract Wednesday and the mobilization of workers at Mack Trucks and in the auto plants to stop any scab operations by Volvo.
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Volvo workers’ open letter to the UAW: “What is your strategy for victory?”
This is an open letter from the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia, to UAW International President Rory Gamble, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry and UAW Local 2069 President Matt Blondino.
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Statement of Volvo workers: What’s next in our two-front war
This statement was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee (VWRFC) at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia.
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Statement of Volvo workers: We need a strategy to win!
Workers are countering union threats of a prolonged strike with a call to prepare for mass pickets, opening of the strike fund and unity with other workers struggles.
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Volvo workers: Vote “no” to the “new” agreement!
The Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia has issued the following statement opposing the latest tentative agreement handed down by the United Auto Workers union. As it explains, there is no substantive difference between the current tentative agreement and the deal that workers resoundingly voted down on May 16.
The Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
An Open Letter to UAW International President Rory Gamble, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry, and UAW Local 2069 President Matt Blondino
This open letter was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia following the overwhelming defeat of a UAW contract last weekend.
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Join the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee or a solidarity committee!
The Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee is leading the fight against the company and UAW’s attempt to impose new concessions at the New River Valley assembly plant.
Workers at Mack Trucks, other Volvo facilities, and throughout the auto industry and elsewhere are forming rank-and-file solidarity committees in order to support the Volvo workers’ struggle.
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The repeated and overwhelming rejection of the UAW’s attempted sellouts by a powerful contingent of industrial workers is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of working-class militancy, which is assuming the form of an insurgency against the UAW and other AFL-CIO affiliated unions.
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
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