by Justin | Nov 4, 2021 | John Deere
The corporations facing strikes don’t seem to realize that times are changing, with a labor shortage giving employees more bargaining power and with the public feeling greater sympathy for underpaid front-line workers as income inequality soars. Read the article...
by Justin | Nov 3, 2021 | John Deere
United Auto Workers union members voted not to accept a contract agreement with Deere & Co. Tuesday, continuing their strike against the company. According to a post from UAW Local 281 on Facebook, 55 percent of all UAW members involved voted “no” to the...
by Justin | Oct 31, 2021 | John Deere
Local United Auto Workers Union 281 has released some of the details of the tentative agreement between the UAW and Deere & Company. The two groups came to that tentative agreement on Saturday morning. Local UAW 281 has also announced voting on the proposed...
by Justin | Oct 30, 2021 | John Deere
John Deere (DE) and the United Auto Workers Union have reached a new tentative agreement, more than two weeks after 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike, both parties announced Saturday. Read the article here.
by Justin | Oct 29, 2021 | John Deere
A safety complaint was filed Oct. 19 at John Deere Seeding Group in Moline to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Peoria. The complaint is not an isolated incident.A review of OSHA complaints submitted by employees from four Deere plants —...
by Justin | Oct 29, 2021 | John Deere
One of the things that was presented in this new contract was that anyone hired after November 2021 was going to lose benefits, like the pensions, and a lot of the membership didn’t feel that was right. There’s a saying that goes,...
