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Deere & Company has announced plans to shift some production from Waterloo, Iowa to a facility in Mexico following a highly favorable second-quarter profit report.
Deere’s earnings and increased projections for 2022 confirm once more that Deere management and the union lied to workers when they told them nothing more could be won in their strike.
The election of May to the Ford board of directors has drawn favorable notice from business analysts due to his confrontational stance against Deere workers.
Workers have said the company and UAW are indifferent to the ongoing spread of COVID-19, which is surging in the Midwest.
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
