{"id":1629,"date":"2011-03-31T03:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2011-03-31T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T03:04:15","slug":"volvo-to-recall-700-truck-plant-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/volvo-to-recall-700-truck-plant-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo to recall 700 truck plant workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volvo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Trucks<\/a> North America in Pulaski County, Va., will recall approximately 700 employees between May 2 and June 13, according to a March 30 announcement.The New River Valley plant, which employs about 1,500 people, is facing a surge in orders for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/post-truck-loads.php\">heavy-duty trucks<\/a>, the Roanoke Times newspaper reported. Volvo\u2019s U.S. and Canadian sales grew 46 percent in 2010 and were 47 percent higher through February compared with a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"429\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=a15ba69aac78102ea6fd001ec92a4a0d&#038;z=SLS&#038;embed_player=1\" ><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=a15ba69aac78102ea6fd001ec92a4a0d&#038;z=SLS&#038;embed_player=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"429\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>Trucks sales boost has company adding a second shift back at Pulaski County plant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freightbrokerscourse.com\/products\/freight-broker-training\/\">Unionized production<\/a> workers recently agreed to a two-tier compensation plan that requires recalled workers to be paid less than those currently working in the factory, the newspaper reported. It is a provision of a recently signed 5-year contract that runs through March 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volvo Trucks North America in Pulaski County, Va., will recall approximately 700 employees between May 2 and June 13, according to a March 30 announcement.The New River Valley plant, which employs about 1,500 people, is facing a surge in orders for heavy-duty trucks, the Roanoke Times newspaper reported. Volvo\u2019s U.S. and Canadian sales grew 46 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[51,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}