EAST MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - John Deere Harvester Works has announced indefinite layoffs coming in October.

According to a media release, John Deere has informed members of the workforce at John Deere Harvester Works in East Moline, that approximately 225 production employees will be placed on indefinite layoff effective Oct. 16.

The media release stated that employees were told of the layoffs by factory leadership in meetings today at the factory.

Although John Deere has hired hundreds of employees in the Quad Cities in recent years, the company has consistently stated that each Deere factory balances the size of its production workforce with the needs of the individual factory to optimize the workforce at each facility, the media release said.

The media release continued to say that John Deere Harvester Works currently has about 2,300 total employees with about 1,975 of them working in production and maintenance jobs.

TV6 spoke with Illinois, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin about his reaction to the layoffs at Deere.

“Deere is a great company and a great employer in the region,” Sen. Durbin said. “I’m sorry that there’s a setback in terms of their workforce, but I hope that they can recover quickly.”

TV6 has reached out to UAW for a response and have not heard back.

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Case and point - this asshole was raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter after being elected to the city council with protecting the children as a primary platform. Thankfully the poor child had the courage to tell someone.

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..., unseeded in the NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament and beat 4 top 10 teams in the final national poll to win it all. Upset #3 San Diego in the Soccer Sweet Sixteen, #9 Pitt in the Elite 8, #4 Denver in the College Cup semis, and 2020 NCAA Champion #8 Marshall (who beat #1 Ohio State in the semis) in the championship game to win the NCAA title. The University of Vermont had never played a national championship game in any sport, and had never won an NCAA title outside of skiing. And what a way to do it! Gotta love sports...

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For all you conspiracy nutz out there in HROTland, “Parkland” is making the STARZ tour this month. Produced by Tom Hanks, based on the Vincent Bugliosi novel “Four Days in November” and deals with the Kennedy assassination in Dallas back in 1963. Pretty straight forward presentation, about 90 minutes long. A good watch. Deals with “the facts” of this murder. It’ll leave conspiracy fiends wanting for more “facts” I am sure.

Film at 11.

Do they bother to thank shareholders left paying the bill?

I wrote up an article about some things Fran could try doing in order to get better defensive play this season. Give it a read and we can discuss it here. I'll make you a guarantee: his cryptic recent comments about Traore will become even more concerning after you read the article.

Honda Motor and Nissan Motor, Japan’s second- and third-largest automakers, are discussing ways to deepen their ties, including the possibility of a merger that could fundamentally restructure Japan’s car industry.
The merger talks between the two storied Japanese giants highlight the intense upheaval within the world’s auto industry, as carmakers grapple with expensive technological shifts, political instability and the rise of fast-growing Chinese rivals.
Though discussions are still at an early stage, the thinking at Nissan and Honda is that combining forces could provide the companies with the resources and scale necessary to navigate those immense pressures.
Last year, Honda sold 3.98 million vehicles and Nissan 3.37 million. Their combination could make them the world’s third-largest automaker group, behind their Japanese rival Toyota Group, which sold 11.23 million vehicles last year, and Volkswagen Group of Germany, which sold 9.23 million.
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Honda and Nissan began collaborating this year on the development of electric vehicles. Over several months, their discussions have expanded to include the potential creation of a new company under which both automakers would operate, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.
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Nissan and Honda are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding within the next week to formally begin discussions of partnership-broadening steps, including the details of a potential merger, the people familiar with the matter said. No final decisions have been made, they said.
The companies said in statements that they were in talks. “As announced in March of this year, Honda and Nissan are exploring various possibilities for future collaboration, leveraging each other’s strengths,” they said. “We will inform our stakeholders of any updates at an appropriate time.”
The possibility of merging forces would have been largely unthinkable for two Japanese titans of auto making just a decade ago. The talks underscore the level of churn in the industry as manufacturers move away from the internal combustion engine, which has powered the vehicles they have produced for most of the past century.

In one instance, the chief executive of a shelter provider paid himself more than $1 million in one year. That provider, CORE, was almost entirely funded by the city, according to the report.

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President Joe Biden is promising to flex his clemency powers again before he leaves office next month, buoying the hopes of capital punishment opponents that he’ll take a big step toward making good on his campaign promise to end the federal death penalty.

Biden could use his authority to grant commutations to convert existing federal death sentences into life in prison. That would deal a serious blow to Trump’s plan to bring back — and even broaden — the use of the death penalty when he returns to power.
The Justice Department has quietly recommended that Biden grant commutations to most of the 40 people on death row, according to a person familiar with the discussions not authorized to discuss them publicly. The recommendation was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department is also on the verge of publishing the findings of a long-running internal review of the lethal injection protocol that the Trump administration adopted in 2019. That protocol uses a fatal dose of a single sedative drug, pentobarbital, to put prisoners to death.

Many experts and critics of the death penalty have said the method, adopted due to shortages of other drugs used in executions, can cause extreme pain during a prisoner’s final minutes. And anti-death penalty activists say the DOJ’s forthcoming report may bolster the case for clemency.
“We hope the review will find that the problems with lethal injection are one additional reason as to why President Biden should grant clemency to death row prisoners,” said Ruth Friedman, who oversees death penalty work for the federal defenders nationwide.

The White House has been mum on the president’s plans for clemency around the death penalty, but anti-death penalty activists say their talks with the administration have been ramping up in recent weeks.

In non-capital cases, Biden has already begun to deploy his clemency power aggressively — commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people earlier this month, not to mention his controversial pardon of his own son. And the White House has vowed that more clemency actions are coming before Biden leaves office.

“I think the problems related to the [execution] protocol, along with all the other problems systemic to the federal death penalty, are reasons President Biden could use to commute all the federal death sentences,” said Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group that studies capital punishment.
If Biden went that far, he would stymie Trump’s ability to immediately resume federal executions, which have been on hold under Biden. During the first Trump administration, officials ordered a flurry of executions, and the president-elect has signaled he wants to not only pick up where he left off, but even expand the use of the death penalty during his second term.

The fate of 40 prisoners​

The vast majority of the nearly 2,200 prisoners currently under sentence of death in the U.S. were convicted in state courts. Biden has no power to stop executions of those inmates, but governors in California and Pennsylvania have imposed moratoriums that have put executions on hold for about one-third of the nation’s death row population.

Biden’s power is limited to the 40 men on the federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana. If he grants sweeping clemency to those prisoners, one big question is whether he will commute all 40 sentences to life in prison, or whether he’ll leave death sentences in place for a handful of notorious criminals.


So many murderers, so many terrorists would be granted clemency under Bidens plan. Sad truly sad he would do this and let those killers escape justice.

“Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole,” Biden announced in a statement released Monday.
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Notably, the president did not commute the sentences of three people whose crimes included mass shootings or acts of terrorism: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers responsible for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in 2013; Dylann Roof, a White nationalist who massacred nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.
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The majority of the 37 individuals whose sentences were commuted Monday were convicted for less high-profile offenses, such as murders tied to drug trafficking or the killings of prison guards or other inmates.

“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in his statement. “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

The move comes as opponents of the death penalty are bracing for Trump’s return to the White House. During the 2024 campaign, Trump indicated he would restart federal executions and work to expand the pool of crimes eligible for capital punishment under federal law, which generally allows for the death penalty in cases of murder, espionage and treason.