A Pulaski County woman has obtained warrant against a Wytheville man for spitting tobacco onto her windshield during the strike at the New River Valley Volvo Plant in Dublin.

According to a news item posted on the National Right To Work website Tuesday, an employee of Volvo called the NRTW and said that she was allowed press charges against a UAW picketer for spitting tobacco onto her car windshield and obstructing her view. The alleged incident took place last week.

The NRTW website also read,  “Though there are far more and far uglier alleged union reprisals against non-striking employees that need to be investigated, today's news comes as a step in the right direction.”

Justin Hakes of the National Right To Work Organization told EverythingNRV Tuesday afternoon, “Our attorney contacted the local magistrate and advised him of Virginia Code section 40.1-53, which makes it a crime to “attempt to interfere with another in the exercise of his Right to Work.

Hakes also stated that the magistrate contacted the local sheriff’s office.

According to Capt. Jeff Saunders of the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department, they took a report of the incident last week from a female who resides in the county.

Saunders went on to say that the Volvo security force had video of the incident.

The victim, along with sheriff investigators, watched the video of the alleged incident.

Investigators were unable to determine from the video as to who the actual suspect was due to the large group of picketers that the video contained.

“The victim was very confident as to who the suspect was and we advised her to go see the magistrate and swear out a warrant. In which see did,” Saunders said.

The misdemeanor warrant was sent to Wytheville, as that is where the alleged suspect resides.

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written by NRV Resident, March 24, 2008

Innocent until proven guilty. Is it a law to not spit on public highways? How do we know this may not have been an accident, and her car drove into the line of spit?

From my understanding, the views were accidentally blocked as people exited the plant, not incoming. This would not constitute hinderance to go to work, but only a short interruption in waiting until the view was clear to leave. Not unlike waiting for pedestrians to cross a road, or oncoming traffic lanes to clear.

Will she file charges against the state for red lights on the way to work?

What if a bird pooped on her window? Would she file charges against a bird?

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spitting @Volvo
written by citizen, March 20, 2008

It's sad that just one person may degrade the public's postitive opinions of the upstanding character traits of UAW membership at Volvo. I know many of them; they are such postive role-models for others. Spitting (tobacco) on someone's windshield, probably not knowing if the driver's window was up or down: I wouldn't want that for ANY lady or man.

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How silly
written by Bobby, March 20, 2008

This is really silly. Our legal sysyem has more important things to take care. Spitting on someone,I can understand. Spitting on a windshield,how stupid of this lady to tie up the sysyem for this. I'm sure this organization is pushing her. Heck, I guess the next thig will be a law suit for spitting

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