An worker prepares a diesel engine for set up right into a truck on the Mack Truck cab and automobile meeting plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania.Luke
An worker prepares a diesel engine for set up right into a truck on the Mack Truck cab and automobile meeting plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs
The United Auto Employees and AB Volvo-owned Mack Truck are set to renew contract negotiations on Monday as at the least 3,500 hourly workers throughout three states proceed to strike.
Employees from six factories, together with Mack’s primary Macungie, Pennsylvania, plant and its engine and transmission facility in Hagerstown, Maryland, started their strike on October 12, following the expiration of the union’s contract on October 1. After a few short-term contract extensions, the perimeters failed to succeed in a deal, ensuing within the first UAW-Mack strike in 35 years.
“We’re upset that the corporate failed to supply any substantial supply previous to the October 1st expiration date or throughout the subsequent conferences held throughout the interval through which we prolonged the contract,” UAW Secretary-Treasurer and Heavy Responsibility Truck Division director Ray Curry wrote in a letter to Volvo Vehicles’ North American labor director D. William Waters on the onset of the strike.
The union has recognized a slate of points that stay unresolved, together with wage will increase, shift premium, vacation schedules, well being and security considerations, retirement, subcontracting and momentary employees, and well being care…