Truckers protest gov’t mandates, fuel price hikes, attacks by bosses

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

WASHINGTON — The People’s Convoy, organized by over-the-road truckers and others who oppose overreaching government COVID mandates and other attacks on their livelihoods, has been based at the Hagerstown, Maryland, speedway since March 6. Participants are still arriving to join…


Truckers fight gov’t mandates, attacks on their livelihoods

Vol. 86/No. 11 - March 21, 2022

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Hundreds of “big rig” tractor trailer trucks and an estimated 1,000 vehicles overall — cars, pick-ups, motorcycles, and RVs — are crammed into the Speedway, an auto race track here, for People’s Convoy protests. More were still…


Barbers defeat boss move to cut pay at army bases

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

“I’m glad to be back at work,” Mike Kates, a barber with 15 years at the Fort Lee U.S. Army base barbershop in central Virginia, told the Militant in a phone call Oct. 29. “After almost four months on strike,…


Military barbers strike after bosses raise prices but not pay

Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021

Since July 4, workers at four barbershops at Ft. Lee U.S. Army Garrison and Ft. Pickett Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center in central Virginia have been picketing outside Ft. Lee. The 20 barbers, members of Laborers International Union Local…


Autoworkers stand up to Volvo truck bosses

Fight to close wage, benefit gap for new hires
Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
United Auto Workers members on strike at Volvo truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 27.

Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members voted down a new tentative agreement with Volvo truck bosses July 9 — the third time angry union members have rejected deals they consider insufficient this year. Since the vote the striking…


Volvo strike in Virginia fights divisive wage tiers

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

The strike by 2,900 members of United Auto Workers Local 2069 at Volvo’s largest North American truck manufacturing plant is now in its fourth week. Workers are standing firm with round-the-clock pickets at the New River Valley plant in Dublin,…


Volvo Truck workers strike over wages, divisive two-tier

Workers reject bosses’ offer, go back on picket line
Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Picket at Volvo truck factory in Dublin, Virginia, June 13. UAW members had ended strike April 30, then rejected boss proposals twice by 90%. They went back out on strike June 7.

DUBLIN, Va. — Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members entered their second week back on strike at Volvo Truck, fighting for higher wages and against bosses’ demands for divisive concessions. Since a 13-day strike at Volvo’s New River…


Autoworkers back on picket line in Volvo Truck strike

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Picket at Volvo Truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 7. UAW members voted down contract offer for second time by 90%.

After twice voting down proposed contracts by 90%, 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia, went back on strike June 7. Horns blared as workers drove out of the plant…


UAW Volvo truck workers vote bosses’ contract down by 91%

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

DUBLIN, Va. — Some 2,900 members of United Auto Workers Local 2069 voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposed tentative agreement with Volvo Truck North America’s New River Valley Plant bosses. The vote was 91% against Volvo’s offer as a whole,…


Steelworkers at ATI vote to authorize strike

Vol. 85/No. 11 - March 22, 2021

Some 1,300 workers at nine Allegheny Technologies Inc. steel mills held a strike authorization vote March 5 with 95% backing a walkout. “It’s time to take a stand, and stop the bleeding,” Todd Barbiaux, a crane operator and president of…