UAW members ratify contracts with Volvo Trucks

Volvo Trucks North America employees represented by the United Auto Workers ratified three-year labor agreements with the company April 2. The contracts cover approximately 2,800 workers at Volvo Trucks’ New River Valley, Va., plant, where the company assembles its VN and VHD trucks. The agreements are effective from Feb. 1 of this year to Jan. 31, 2008.