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Farmers Wait Weeks For John Deere Parts As Strikes Paralyze Midwest Factories\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Multiple John Deere dealerships report part delays for tractors and heavy equipment amid an ongoing strike of more than 10,000 members of the United Auto Workers union at 12 of Deere’s Midwest factories and facilities, according to\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dealerships note that customers face weeks-long delays for tractor and equipment parts that would typically take several days to fulfill. These parts and components are crucial for farmers to keep combine harvesters and other farm equipment humming during harvest season to stay ahead of the wintry season.<\/p>\n

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Deere’s situation worsened this week when 90% of union workers\u00a0rejected<\/a>\u00a0its offer that would have ended the walkout, which\u00a0began in mid-October<\/a>. Workers are encouraged to seek higher pay because of Deere’s strong earnings.<\/p>\n

“It seems general membership feels emboldened by this current political moment of labor power. They’re pushing things further than the union leadership apparently wants to go,” Victor Chen, a sociologist at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies labor, told\u00a0<\/em>CBS News<\/em><\/a>. “It’s a gamble, but the economic wind is against their backs, given widespread supply chain problems and the current worker shortage.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jon Fisher, a wholesaler of tractors and other machinery in Columbia, South Carolina, said supply chain issues already complicated the picture for procuring parts. Now strikes are a “doubly whammy” where parts are more expensive and harder to find. He said what used to take days now takes three or more weeks.<\/p>\n

According to CNN Business, the strike has forced the tractor company to explore whether it can\u00a0source parts from its 59 foreign factories to satisfy domestic demand while striking continues with no end in sight.<\/p>\n

Deere has considered using replacement workers or strikebreakers, a ploy by companies to counteract strikes, but there are few workers in the labor market.<\/p>\n

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Farmers Wait Weeks For John Deere Parts As Strikes Paralyze Midwest Factories\u00a0 Multiple John Deere dealerships report part delays for tractors and heavy equipment amid an ongoing strike of more than 10,000 members of the United Auto Workers union at 12 of Deere’s Midwest factories and facilities, according to\u00a0Bloomberg. Dealerships note that customers face weeks-long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[32120,299,1912,32119,3573,3237,11402,4318],"class_list":["post-60356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-farm-equipment","tag-farming","tag-food-production","tag-john-deere","tag-supplies","tag-supply-chains","tag-supply-shortages","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60357,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60356\/revisions\/60357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}