Growing Solidarity

In October 2021, ten thousand John Deere workers in Iowa and across the US made international headlines through their first major strike in over thirty years. While mainstream media outlets focused on the strike’s drama, they often missed longer and more complex stories of workers within their local unions, communities, and contexts. This article focuses on one of those stories—that of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 450 at John Deere’s Des Moines Works, located in Ankeny, Iowa.

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