Negotiations resumed today to try to settle a strike by about 10,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union who are employed by Deere & Co.
It’s the first time the two sides have met in more than a week, after union members rejected in a 55 to 45 per cent vote a tentative agreement that would have increased wages by 10 per cent in the first year of a six-year contract and included a signing bonus of $8,500 for every worker.
Conversations have been ongoing, but this is the first formal sitdown to negotiate the next steps in reaching a ratified deal, one of the people said.
