Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
by Michael Sainato from on (#5QQ2G)
Workers wage biggest private-sector strike in the US for two years, saying they were forced to do overtime consistently while company made record profits
More than 10,000 production and warehouse workers at 14 John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia walked off the job at midnight, in the latest in a wave of industrial unrest in the US.
The workers, represented by nine locals with the United Auto Workers (UAW), voted 99% in favor of a strike authorization in September after receiving the initial six-year contract proposal from John Deere.
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