Illinois John Deere worker dies following workplace accident
Anthony S. “Tony” LeCleir, 55 of Davenport, Iowa, tragically died on November 7 as a result of injuries sustained in a workplace accident on October 20.
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One year after strike, John Deere workers in Iowa back Will Lehman campaign
Supporters of the United Auto Workers presidential candidate spoke with John Deere workers in Waterloo, Iowa about last year’s strike, along with Stellantis workers facing the closure of the Belvidere Assembly Plant near Rockford, Illinois
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Deere workers voice support for Will Lehman for UAW president: “What he says, it’s all true”
Supporters of Lehman visited several Deere plants in the Quad Cities region last weekend, encountering many workers who expressed keen interest in his program and denounced the corrupt UAW bureaucracy.
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Deere workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight for what workers need!
The strike by Deere workers last year was a courageous struggle which has inspired workers not just in the Midwest, but throughout the US and in other countries.
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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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