began a strike at the Virginia plant in April<\/a><\/u><\/strong>, but suspended it after 13 days so workers could vote on a contract proposal endorsed by the union\u2019s bargaining committee. The proposed agreement was rejected decisively in mid-May with more than 91% of the union, voting to turn down the proposal. Company and union negotiators tried again but the second agreement also was rejected, setting the stage for the resumption of the strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Auto Workers resumed its strike at a plant operated by Volvo Truck in rural Virginia after union members rejected a proposed contract for the second time in a month. The union says it\u2019ll be ready to talk again starting Wednesday. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":203306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,914],"tags":[344,512,915,916,917],"make":[],"post-state":[335],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203312,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203303\/revisions\/203312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203303"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=203303"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=203303"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=203303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}