The United Auto Workers union ended a 13-day strike Friday at Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA), clearing the way for production to resume Monday at the Swedish truck makers’s only North American manufacturing facility.
Volvo said only that a tentative agreement was reached on a new five-year contract to replace a pact of the same length that expired on March 16. It declined comment on the deal until a ratification vote by the 2,900 affected rank-and-file workers.
UAW Local 2069 members walked off their jobs for the first time since 2008 after a 30-day extension expired April 17. Workers had voted 96.8% in favor of authorizing a strike.
The local union told strikers to remove picket signs from the New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia, by 6 a.m. Friday and prepare to go back to work beginning with Sunday’s third shift.
