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Volvo Group’s decision to lay off nearly 1,000 workers is part of the global attack on the jobs, wages and conditions of the working class. These attacks must be resisted! 

Stop the layoffs at Mack and Volvo Trucks! Unite across plants, industries, and borders to defend jobs and oppose war!

“If you can hold the line and defeat the tier system, years of stagnant wages, and the empty promises of the UAW bureaucrats—you will win for all of us.”

“It is the lack of communication that keeps the UAW bureaucracy in power. But knowledge is power”: Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee leader sends message of support to autoworkers

Mack Trucks and the pro-company UAW bureaucracy are planning to start an electric vehicle jobs bloodbath in the 2023 contract

The upcoming Mack Trucks contract battle, electric vehicles, and the need for rank-and-file committees

Volvo workers now live under a UAW-imposed contract whose “pay raises” are being devoured by runaway inflation. 

“People are raising hell”: Volvo Trucks worker describes impact of contract one year after 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.

Volvo worker describes conditions at Volvo New River Valley Plant after UAW betrayed five-week strike

This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .

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“Biden’s visit in July was both a show of force against workers at the company and an effort to stir up competition against our working class brothers and sisters in other countries.”

Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker responds to President Joseph Biden’s visit to truck plant

Despite the continuing media blackout of the Volvo strike, the influence of the Volvo strike is making itself felt among other workers, who are beginning to draw important lessons from the strike.

UAW continues to withhold the full contract agreement for Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia

The Mack-Volvo Rank and File Committee in Macungie, Pennsylvania has been formed as a body independent of the official trade union and calls on other workers to do the same in their industry.

Mack Truck workers announce formation of rank and file committee in Macungie, Pennsylvania

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