John Deere pulling the carpet in Waterloo...

[joelbc1]

Moving the production of their “cabs” ( for tractors, combines and the balance of their farm equipment) from Waterloo and moving the jobs to...not Alabama but to Mexico!
Theyprobably had no idea they would be doing this a year ago when Deere workers went “on strike” and Deere settled the strike rather quickly.
Good thing Iowa has Kim for a Governor...maybe she will have a program where these displaced workers can open up all those recycle centers the new “bottle bill” is providing!
Sucks to be a Deere employee in Waterloo! (But then' these workers have that “ new” unemployment program to assist them!)

 

[BrunoMars420]

No one is being laid off per the article I read yesterday and they are building a new site at the current site. Sounds like a lot of robots do the work there anyway.

 

[NCHawk5]

Well…. Maybe they shouldn’t have been so damn greedy. Wasn’t their agreement overly generous?

 

[BrunoMars420]

“UAW Local 838 President Tim Frickson says he was notified by his shop committee at the TCAO facility Wednesday morning of the decision. Frickson says he has not spoken to John Deere at this point.

Frickson says it is his understanding that there are no planned layoffs at the facility, where approximately 1,100 people work, and the company may be planning to start a new build at the facility.”

"We don't want to see the jobs leave the Waterloo area, we don't want to see the jobs leave the U.S.," Frickson said.

However, John Deere says "The number of employees affected will depend on where the business is with respect to production volumes, employee attrition over the next two years, and new product program needs."

UPDATE: John Deere moving cab production to Mexico

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) - John Deere confirms they will be moving cab production from the Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations facility in Waterloo to a plant in Mexico.

www.kwwl.com

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Ross Perot had it right. That giant sucking sound you hear is American jobs going to Mexico if Clinton signs NAFTA...

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Maybe they want to move to Mexico where it's a safer environment for their employees...

I wonder why it's called gun violence and not gang violence...

Waterloo police ask for more community engagement after 7 shootings in 8 days

Police plan to recruit people and equipped them with police radios to alert authorities

www.kcrg.com

 

[Slappy Pappy]

Ross Perot had it right. That giant sucking sound you hear is American jobs going to Mexico if Clinton signs NAFTA...

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The other side is that is when Mexican immigrants began pouring over the border because cheap Iowa corn got dumped in Mexico and put over 1 million farmers there out of business.

 

[QChawks]

You’ll see a lot more of this for production that cannot easily be automated.

$18 to $5 an hour is hard to argue

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

The other side is that is when Mexican immigrants began pouring over the border because cheap Iowa corn got dumped in Mexico and put over 1 million farmers there out of business.

Despite that we have gone from having a positive trade surplus with Mexico pre NAFTA, to a 108 billion deficit in 2021. When farmers go out of business they move to town and work in factories just like what has happened in the US over the last 100 years...

 

[LuteHawk]

Caterpillar Inc. (2021 figures)

Global Full-time employees: 107,700
Sales & Revenue: $51 Billion
Sales & Revenue outside U.S.A.: 62%

Global Locations: U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, Australia, China, India
Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Belgium,
Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland,
Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, South Africa.

Bottom Line: John Deere is moving towards a Global Economy.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Deere has been world wide for quite some time...

https://www.deere.com/common/docs/our_company/about_us/worldwide_locations/worldwidelocations.pdf

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Moving the production of their “cabs” ( for tractors, combines and the balance of their farm equipment) from Waterloo and moving the jobs to...not Alabama but to Mexico!
Theyprobably had no idea they would be doing this a year ago when Deere workers went “on strike” and Deere settled the strike rather quickly.
Good thing Iowa has Kim for a Governor...maybe she will have a program where these displaced workers can open up all those recycle centers the new “bottle bill” is providing!
Sucks to be a Deere employee in Waterloo! (But then' these workers have that “ new” unemployment program to assist them!)

Well…. Maybe they shouldn’t have been so damn greedy. Wasn’t their agreement overly generous?

Despite that we have gone from having a positive trade surplus with Mexico pre NAFTA, to a 108 billion deficit in 2021. When farmers go out of business they move to town and work in factories just like what has happened in the US over the last 100 years...

I was told by Trump that the USMCA would stop all this by replacing NAFTA. He wouldn’t have lied to us, right?

 

[NCHawk5]

I was told by Trump that the USMCA would stop all this by replacing NAFTA. He wouldn’t have lied to us, right?

JFC you probably blame trump for your ED

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

JFC you probably blame trump for your ED

I blame your mom’s face and her lack of felatio skills (despite all the practice).

Truth about Trump hurts, doesn’t it chief?

 

[ghost80]

...and those "ham n eggers" in Waterloo didn't see this coming?

On the bright side for them the pay for flipping burgers has never been higher.

 

[DooBii]

I was told by Trump that the USMCA would stop all this by replacing NAFTA. He wouldn’t have lied to us, right?

Lol

 

[NCHawk5]

I blame your mom’s face and her lack of felatio skills (despite all the practice).

Truth about Trump hurts, doesn’t it chief?

What truth? I don’t like trump. However Biden is worse for almost every American. So you admit to the ED then?

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

What truth? I don’t like trump. However Biden is worse for almost every American. So you admit to the ED then?

Only with your mom. I would have thought you’d have taught your only sexual partner ever better than that, NC.

 

[NCHawk5]

Only with your mom. I would have thought you’d have taught your only sexual partner ever better than that, NC.

Lol if you knew the truth about me your eyes would get even puffier than usual SE King.

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Frickson says it is his understanding that there are no planned layoffs

yet...

 

[McLovin32]

 

[doughuddl2]

Moving the production of their “cabs” ( for tractors, combines and the balance of their farm equipment) from Waterloo and moving the jobs to...not Alabama but to Mexico!
Theyprobably had no idea they would be doing this a year ago when Deere workers went “on strike” and Deere settled the strike rather quickly.
Good thing Iowa has Kim for a Governor...maybe she will have a program where these displaced workers can open up all those recycle centers the new “bottle bill” is providing!
Sucks to be a Deere employee in Waterloo! (But then' these workers have that “ new” unemployment program to assist them!)

Learn coding.

 

[TheCainer]

Ross Perot had it right. That giant sucking sound you hear is American jobs going to Mexico if Clinton signs NAFTA...

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You don't think Bush Sr. would have signed it?

lol

It was his administration that drew it up. And, it was originally Reagan's idea when he first ran for president in 1980.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

You don't think Bush Sr. would have signed it?

lol

It was his administration that drew it up. And, it was originally Reagan's idea when he first ran for president in 1980.

Yeah, that's why I voted for Perot, are you clueless?

 

[TheCainer]

Yeah, that's why I voted for Perot, are you clueless?

Well, a vote for Perot was a vote for Clinton now, wasn't it?

 

[baddog25]

 

[Chishawk1425]

Well, a vote for Perot was a vote for Clinton now, wasn't it?

Bingo