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				<p>GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Volvo Trucks North America has announced that the company and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement on terms of a new five-year agreement that would cover approximately 1,300 UAW members at the New River Valley plant in Dublin, VA.</p>
<div>The agreement has yet to be ratified by UAW Local #2069.</div>
<p>The Volvo VN and VHD trucks are assembled in the United States at the New River Valley Plant. Volvo engines for North America are assembled in Hagerstown, Maryland.</p>
			
				
				
			
				
				
			
			
			
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