Volvo New River Plant Workers Ratify 5-Year Contract

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Transport Topics  /  April 5, 2016

Volvo Trucks North America announced that United Auto Workers union members at its New River Valley (NRV) plant in Virginia have ratified a five-year contract.

The terms of the agreement that extends from March 17, 2016 until March 16, 2021 weren’t released. The vote count also wasn’t disclosed.

“Our positive working relationship with the UAW was in evidence throughout negotiations, and helped us reach an agreement that ensures the plant’s competitiveness, while continuing to offer our employees a great quality of life,” said Franky Marchand, vice president and general manager of the plant known as NRV that is located in Dublin, Virginia.

“NRV builds every truck we sell in North America,” said Göran Nyberg, president of Volvo Trucks North America, “and this agreement gives us the stability we need to keep building on the momentum we established during our record 2015.”

 

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Volvo Employees OK New Contract

The New River Dispatch  /  April 5, 2016

Workers at the Volvo plant in Dublin have overwhelmingly approved a new contract with the truck maker. According to a post on the UAW Local 2069 Facebook page, workers ratified the agreement by a ‘YES’ vote of 88% of the votes cast.

The five-year agreement gives employees a pay raise, increases in medical, vision, dental benefits, increases in pension benefits, and a hunting holiday. Retirees will also get yearly lump-sum increases.

The Dublin plant, which currently employs more than 1,750 people, laid off more than 600 workers in February. No change in their status was indicated.

Details of the agreement can be found on the UAW Local 2069 website.

 

UAW – Volvo Trucks Proposal Highlights

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UAW and Volvo agree to new contract at Dublin plant

The Roanoke Times  /  April 5, 2016

The union for Volvo’s only truck-making plant in the United States has OK’d a labor contract with the company that will run until March 16, 2021, according to a Volvo news release.

Negotiations on the agreement began in February, the same month that the truck manufacturer began layoffs of approximately 600 plant workers. Before the layoffs were announced in December, the plant had 2,800 employees.

UAW Local 2096 has not returned repeated requests for comment, but the union has unveiled contract highlights on its website. From the online documentation, the plant’s union employees would be entitled to $2,000 signing bonuses and general wage increases over the next five years.

For example, employees hired between March 17, 2011, and March 16 of this year would receive a $2,000 signing bonus and a 50-cent hourly raise from the second to fourth year of the contract.

Those employees would then get a 73-cent raise during the contract’s fifth year.

The five-year agreement Volvo and the union reached in 2011 was set to expire this year. When the union ratified the previous agreement in 2011, Volvo rehired about 700 workers who had previously been laid off.

The union ratified the contract agreement Sunday, according to the union’s Facebook page. Various sectors involved in the vote, including hourly and salaried employees, approved the contract by more than 80 percent in favor.

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Volvo Trucks North America and UAW Agree on Five-Year Contract

Volvo Group Press Release  /  April 5, 2016

Volvo Trucks North America today announced that employees represented by the United Auto Workers have ratified a new five-year agreement covering about 2,000 members of UAW Local #2069 at the New River Valley, VA, plant. The new contract is effective March 17, 2016, and will expire on March 16, 2021.

“Our positive working relationship with the UAW was in evidence throughout negotiations, and helped us reach an agreement that ensures the plant’s competitiveness, while continuing to offer our employees a great quality of life,” said Franky Marchand, NRV vice president and general manager.

“NRV builds every truck we sell in North America,” said Göran Nyberg, president of Volvo Trucks North America, "and this agreement gives us the stability we need to keep building on the momentum we established during our record 2015.”

[james j neiweem]

Smart move union people. The Mexicans were waiting. Hats off to Volvo. Boy that's kind of hard to say.