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COMPANY intransigence over changing a bad working environment and refusal to give workers decent pay — plus no pensions for new hires — forced 10,000 United Auto Workers members at John Deere heavy farm equipment plants in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas to strike.
And the only surprise is that it’s no surprise.
In what worker advocates, including the AFL-CIO, are calling “Striketober,” bosses have forced 30 groups of workers to walk out this month, a level of strikes unseen for one month since at least the 1950s.
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