Deere workers describe problems in working conditions, pay following end of strike
Workers have said the company and UAW are indifferent to the ongoing spread of COVID-19, which is surging in the Midwest.
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Deere reports blowout earnings one week after UAW sellout of strike
Deere is projecting that it will set yet another record for profits next year, exploding the claim by company and union executives that there was no more money available to meet workers’ demands.
Marcus Day•
Labor Notes, DSA cover up UAW betrayal of Deere strike
The conflict between rank-and-file workers and the UAW is being swept under the rug and deliberately concealed by organizations which have long functioned as apologists for the pro-corporate union bureaucracies.
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Deere workers denounce UAW “dirty tricks” operation to pass contract: “They’re criminal scumbags”
As 10,000 John Deere workers have begun to return to plants and warehouses in recent days following the shutdown of their five-week-long strike, anger has remained high at the United Auto Workers union.
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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
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