our Vision   

Engage and Educate our Members,

Build Bottom-Up, Rank-and-File Power,

Mobilize and Organize Action!

As a group of Local 281 rank and file members, we are working to bridge the gap in communication, engage our coworkers about important shop floor issues, and build Rank-and-File shop floor power from the bottom-up who realize the power we have and the authority we hold while identifying and prioritizing our demands for 2027 contract negotiations. Demands that include:

1. Eliminate CIPP: CIPP is a tool for the company. It puts the burden of the boss's mismanagement on us as workers who are obligated to find solutions to problems we didn't create in order to protect our earnings. This divisive pay structure pits factory against factory, department against department, and workers against workers, when our fight should be against the boss. 

2. End NTA abuse: Setting parameters in the contract that implements checks and balances to non-traditional assignments (NTA's) that afford the company the ability to bypass seniority, influence our membership, and incentivize a company-union culture that undermines the fundamental principles of our union. 

3. Job Security: With a company as profitable as John Deere, building the tractors that make the brand with union labor in the U.S., is non-negotiable. We must safeguard our jobs and our communities. Plant closing moratoriums are vitally important, but that alone is not enough to stop the outsourcing of our livelihoods one piece at a time. We must start bargaining to protect our livelihoods while also protecting workers around the world from being exploited for cheap labor. 

These are just three examples of what members have shared among each other, and we want more members to join the conversation!