Tentative Contract Agreement Reached With John Deere

Negotiators for John Deere and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement for a new labor contract covering the company’s 10-thousand employees, including union members at John Deere Dubuque Works. Details of the contract released by Deere would pay U-A-W members a 10 percent increase in wages. That’s up from a five to six percent increase that Deere offered in an earlier proposal that union members rejected October 10th. There are other provisions impacting the retirement program which workers asked of the company.  A vote on the new contract is set for Tuesday.