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The closures, which threaten hundreds of jobs in Ottumwa and Clarion, are meant to intimidate 10,000 Deere workers, whose contract expires next October.
Some 10,000 John Deere workers rejected a sellout contract extension Sunday, defying a UAW apparatus that tried to smother the 2027 contract fight before it could begin and joining a widening rank-and-file revolt across the auto industry.
Agriculture equipment maker John Deere is demanding a two-year contract extension for 10,000 UAW members in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas.
The cuts include 115 workers at Harvester Works in East Moline, IL, on August 29; 71 at the Waterloo, IA, Foundry on September 19; and 52 at the Seeding and Cylinder facility in Moline, IL, on September 26.
The John Deere Workers Rank-and-File Committee is leading the fight against the company and UAW’s attempt to impose new pro-corporate concessions.
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The repeated and overwhelming rejection of the UAW’s attempted sellouts by a powerful contingent of industrial workers is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of working-class militancy, which is assuming the form of an insurgency against the UAW and other AFL-CIO affiliated unions.
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
