United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2069 members rejected for the third time a new labor agreement Friday evening, extending a strike at Volvo Trucks North America’s New River Valley truck assembly operations (NRV) in Dublin, Virginia, that has dragged on for more than a month.
Volvo Trucks and UAW leadership reached their most recent agreement July 1, and Friday the deal was put before local membership, which rejected it by a fairly wide margin. Hourly language was shot down 60% to 40%, common language 60% to 40% and salary language 67% to 33%.
Brian Rothenberg, UAW International director of public relations, said the current strike will continue and that the elected UAW Local 2069 Bargaining Committee will continue to work on negotiating a new labor contract.
