John Deere lays off another 287 workers as Bernie Sanders seeks to place blame on foreign workers
Deere is once again placing the burden of declining sales on workers by slashing jobs.
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John Deere to lay off a further 345 workers, adding to its bloodletting of over 1,500 jobs
The layoffs can and must be stopped through the independent intervention of Deere workers by forming rank-and-file committees across state lines and internationally to unite workers against the cuts.
George Gallanis•
Deere announces plans to cut over 800 more jobs in Iowa and Illinois
The mass layoffs revealed Monday double the number Deere has announced for the year, now totaling over 1,600, part of an escalating assault on jobs throughout the auto industry and other industrial sectors.
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Deere cuts over 300 jobs at Waterloo, Iowa plant
Deere’s Waterloo Works complex was the center of rank-and-file opposition to the UAW’s sellout of the 2021 strike.
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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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