https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2021/05/10/john-deere-co-mower-tractor-struggles-hire-jobs-iowa-demand-agricutlure-equipment-booms/5000633001/
There is a timeline negotiation between the john deer and its worker. The world’s largest farm equipment maker and the UAW (United Auto Workers) reached an agreement after weeks of negotiation on wages and other benefits, but 90 percent of the union workers voted against the deal. About 10,000 members of UAW went on strike.
Johan deer is having a great year, a record year as the company is projected to earn six billion, and the workers are looking at the prospective wages and benefits in the contract.
If john deer workers walk off the job, tonight it would be the first time since the 1980s that workers went on strikes. During that time john workers in Iowa and elsewhere were on strike for 160 days. One union labor insider tells that we could expect to see that more workers walk off the job.
The Deer executive said that the company has offered competitive wages and benefits for all employees with the knowledge of negotiation. The executive said that every employee and their position are important, and the Deer is committed to working with the UAW to reach the tentative agreement. But the workers say that the company hasn’t gone far enough with them. They did not fulfill what they said, especially when the company was making good profits.
Union members also said that overtime was mandatory for them, the workload was too high, and there was no help from the unsupportive managers.
Factories are being affected by the strike, John Deere shuts operations at 11 factories in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas, and three distribution centers in Georgia, Illinois, and Colorado. Workers of each plant are going on strike outside the building. The union had said its all member would walk off the job if the no-deal has reached by 11:59 pm.
“Our members at John Deere strike for the ability to earn a decent living, retire with dignity and establish fair work rules,”. We stay committed to bargaining until our members’ goals are achieved “ said Chuck Browning, vice president and director of the UAW’s Agricultural Implement Department.
“The whole nation’s going to be watching us,” Laursen a worker of company said to the newspaper. “If we take a stand here for ourselves, our families, for basic human prosperity, it’s going to make a difference for the whole manufacturing industry. Let’s do it. Let’s not be intimidated.”