John Deere Workers Reject a Revised Contract Proposal Extending their Strike
“For the second time in under one month, workers at the agriculture equipment maker Deere & Company rejected a contract proposal negotiated by their union on Tuesday, extending a strike that began in mid-October. Roughly 10,000 workers, primarily at plants in Iowa and Illinois, on Oct. 10,” reports Noam Scheiber in The New York Times.
“Voted down an earlier agreement negotiated by the United Automobile Workers union. The strike against John Deere & Company will continue as we discuss next steps with the company, the union said in a statement. Marc A. Howze, a senior Deere official, said in a statement that the agreement would have included an investment.”