The Strike Wave Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop | Labor Notes

The Strike Wave Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop | Labor Notes: This is a joint publication with The Intercept. Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, production workers at a John Deere facility in Waterloo, Iowa, started shutting down the plant, quenching the furnaces in the foundry. The plant was already mostly empty, with Deere telling overnight workers to stay home. Three days earlier, union members at United Auto Workers meetings in