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WASHINGTON (DTN) — President Joe Biden early Thursday announced overnight negotiations between major railroads and unions had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a nationwide rail strike that was set to occur Friday. The deal, if culminated, would bring a sigh of relief across the agricultural and biofuels supply chain. Agricultural groups this past week […]
RACINE, WI – Talks between United Auto Workers and Case New Holland Industrial were halted after a proposal from the company that included increased wages that would be largely offset by more costly health insurance. “Neither side’s talking,” Nick Guernsey, president of UAW Local 807, told The Hawk Eye newspaper on Monday as the strike […]
MOLINE, ILL -The day after union workers with Deere & Company turned down a second negotiated contract, a Deere spokesperson said there will not be a third proposal offered. Members of local United Auto Worker chapters cast their vote Tuesday, Nov. 2 on a re-negotiated contract. The results showed that 55% of union members were […]
MOLINE, ILL – Following a strike from employees, John Deere has announced it has reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers for a new labor contract. Fox News reports that while the agreement must receive approval from UAW workers to take effect, John Deere officials said in an emailed statement that the agreement […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Workers at a South Dakota meatpacking plant that became a coronavirus hotspot last year are considering a strike after contract negotiations between Smithfield Foods and the union have stalled, the union said Wednesday. The Sioux Falls chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union threatened to move for a […]
