Lede: UAW workers are on strike at a Volvo truck plant in Virginia to defend health and safety protections. Doug Cunningham has more on the story.

The UAW says despite the union’s willingness to work with Volvo on issues, the company is continuing to make unreasonable demands that would erode the wages and benefits that workers have fought for years to achieve and protect. And the UAW says health hand safety protections in the current contract are under attack. Workers say the strike is about basic health and safety protections – an unfair labor practice strike. More than 2400 workers walked off their jobs at the Dublin Volvo truck plant in southwest Virginia, closing the plant. Senator Barack Obama said over the weekend that he supports the striking UAW workers at Volvo. Obama says the UAW demands for health and safety and job security are things all workers should expect and UAW members deserve. Volvo claims it’s committed to the collective bargaining process and will bargain in good faith until an agreement is reached.