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“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.”
Mack Trucks and the pro-company UAW bureaucracy are planning to start an electric vehicle jobs bloodbath in the 2023 contract
Volvo workers now live under a UAW-imposed contract whose “pay raises” are being devoured by runaway inflation.
Workers at the plant still have not received copies of the contract, and are discovering loopholes that are cheating them out of holiday pay.
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.
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.
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.
This statement was written by the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee (VWRFC) at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To learn more about joining a committee, fill out this form, and someone from the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter or Socialist Equality Party will follow up with you to discuss getting involved.
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
