Posted on 06/29/2024 9:49:57 AM PDT by DFG
John Deere is sparking outrage by laying off American workers and moving more of its agricultural equipment manufacturing to Mexico.
Since October 2023, more than 1,000 John Deere workers have either been laid off or pushed into an early retirement across several plants in Iowa and Illinois.
In many instances, production that these US workers were responsible for has been shifted to new locations in Mexico. The company was founded 187 years ago.
More layoffs are expected later this year - despite John Deere raking in over $10 billion in profit in 2023 while also paying CEO John May $26.7 million in total compensation.
A longtime John Deere worker at the Harvester Works plant in East Moline, Illinois, told The Guardian it comes down to one thing: Greed.
'We get wind of more layoffs daily, it seems, and it's causing uncertainty all over,' said the worker, who stayed anonymous for fear of retaliation.
'The only reason for Deere to do this is greed.'
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Not greed, the UAW
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Eff u John Deere!
We get their rapists, and they get our jobs.
FJB
Will that be tractors painted “Juan Deere Green, and White, and Red”?
The UAW loves dollar-denominated dues, but it will learn to love pesos tambien.
Place tarrifs on John Deere products coming out of Mexico so there’s no reason to move a plant there.
“Fury as one of America’s oldest companies slashes jobs in the Midwest as it shifts work to Mexico: ‘It’s greed’”
...so says their Labor Unions.
Not greed, the UAW”
Yes and it’s still greed but not the company’s.
Biden economy and regulations.
But they now have blacks and women in their ads, so everything is ok. /s
Self interest is not greed unlike what the Left would have you believe.
Self interest is how we achieve, build, grow, and proposer. Self interest is from God.
Assign greed to government and their voracious and greedy bureaucracies.
That wouldn’t happen if the Donald was POTUS.
It’s not greed, it’s business.
The real culprits here are the governments - federal, state, and local. They have the power to make the United States a business-friendly place. But no.
Instead they heap on laws, taxes, and regulations. These things strangle business. Get rid of all that. Oh, and a small tariff wouldn’t hurt either.
Side point about unions: There is nothing wrong with unions. But thanks to the government, it’s not a level playing field.
If you want to go on strike, go on strike. But then the company should be able to permanently replace you. That’s not allowed anymore.
NAFTA has been killing America ever since Clinton foisted it on us. We have all these labor standards which only serve now to make foreign labor cheaper and more convenient for big companies.
Like Pres Trump said ... It’s the REGULATIONS ... hurting businesses.
“Place tarrifs on John Deere products coming out of Mexico so there’s no reason to move a plant there.”
Ever deal with labor unions when working at a large legacy manufacturing company?
I really doubt that the management of Deere wanted to pack up and leave for Mexico to set up shop there - it’s not exactly the best place for Americans to raise children.
...so something made them leave.
I'm sure it's not entirely directly money.
Insane union work rules.
If things are slow in one area and busy in another, workers can't be shuffled.
It hurts companies and makes life boring for workers.
Well for those workers who get bored.
A lot are just drones only interested in learning how to do one thing.
I doubt there are much in the way of draconian work rules in Mexico.
John Deere is woke and MBA driven. The first warning of who they were was refusing to let farmers work on their own machine by refusing to give them access to required software.
Now they picked some kid to be VP of Tractors with a contest where being photogenic was apparently a big part.
Now they move to Mexico.
Screw John Deere. And their CEO is massively overpaid. In 1965 CEO pay was about 20 times average worker pay. This CEO makes around 400 times the average worker.
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