The 3,900-member strike includes a plant in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley where Class 8 refuse trucks are assembled, including the company’s CNG and electric models.
By Jacob Wallace, News Dive
United Auto Workers members are now striking five plants after rejecting a tentative agreement with Mack Trucks, the union announced Sunday. One of the plants, in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania, assembles all of Mack’s Class 8 heavy-duty trucks, including the Mack LR Electric.
Mack Trucks, a division of Volvo Group, offered a 19% wage increase and some healthcare, pension, and time off concessions in an agreement rejected by 73% of union members on Sunday. Key ongoing demands for the workers include cost of living adjustments, the abolition of a tiered retirement system, and progression to the top union wage.
About 3,900 Mack Trucks members began picketing this week, bringing the total number of struck workers to more than 30,000. The UAW has seen the number of its members on strike swell since contracts expired with Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis at the end of the day on Sept. 14.
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