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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.

Workers have said the company and UAW are indifferent to the ongoing spread of COVID-19, which is surging in the Midwest.

If a UAW steward contracted the virus outside of working in a plant, what of the Deere workers who are now returning to the factories, working side by side, as the pandemic continues to rage?

The UAW has not published anything on its website or Facebook page about its ongoing talks with Deere & Co. over a new labor agreement covering 10,000 workers employed by the farm and construction equipment maker.

Deere workers say they are determined to win back the concessions the UAW has given up over decades.

In fact, the UAW and Deere already have their contract, worked out behind closed doors. The only thing they are really “negotiating” is how to ram it through the workers.

Alabama educators join the growing international support for striking Volvo workers The Alabama Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee extends its full solidarity to the 3,000 workers at the New River Valley Volvo plant in Dublin, Virginia who have now been on strike for one month. After overwhelmingly defeating two concessionary contracts, the workers are already exposing a new tentative agreement pushed by the UAW for making further inroads on health care and the multi-tiered payroll scheme...

Latest UAW-Volvo agreement contains attacks on pay, health care Front of a Volvo truck [Credit: Justin Kase Conder/AP Images for Volvo Trucks] The announcement of the agreement on the UAW website was its first public acknowledgment of the strike since workers walked out at the beginning of June. For weeks, the UAW enforced a news blackout of the strike, seeking to prevent other workers from even knowing it is happening. Its banner headline Thursday reads, “Striking Volvo Workers in Dublin Vir...

UAW-backed contract includes new attacks on Volvo Truck retirees or by text at (540) 307-0509. Nearly 3,000 workers at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia will be voting this Sunday on a six-year labor agreement backed by the United Auto Workers union. Rank-and-file workers are actively opposing the deal, which is only a slightly modified version of a previous UAW-backed deal workers decisively rejected last month. There are many elements of the proposed agreement that ha...

Jacobin magazine: Promoting the unions while ignoring the class struggle Since the start of the year, workers throughout the United States have been engaged in a series of significant class struggles that reflect the growth of anger and opposition throughout the country. Workers are fighting back against the ferocious austerity measures of the ruling elite that have followed the massive handout to the corporate and financial elite in the midst of the pandemic. Sections of nurses, autoworkers, s...