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Workers get set to strike against agricultural mega-corp John Deere
Amid an upsurge in US union activity, United Auto Workers members at farm equipment plants in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas are ready to walk out paltry pay and pensions injustice, write MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK
STANDING FIRM: Members of the United Auto Workers strike outside of the John Deere Engine Works plant on Ridgeway Avenue in Waterloo, Iowa on October 15
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COMPANY intransigence over changing a bad working environment and refusal to give workers decent pay — plus no pensions for new hires — forced 10,000 United Auto Workers members at John Deere heavy farm equipment plants in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas to strike.
And the only surprise is that it’s no surprise.
In what worker advocates, including the AFL-CIO, are calling “Striketober,” bosses have forced 30 groups of workers to walk out this month, a level of strikes unseen for one month since at least the 1950s.
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