{"id":682880,"date":"2022-06-02T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=207194"},"modified":"2022-06-02T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:38:55","slug":"farm-and-construction-equipment-workers-strike-in-iowa-and-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/02\/farm-and-construction-equipment-workers-strike-in-iowa-and-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm and Construction Equipment Workers Strike in Iowa and Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven hundred workers who manufacture agricultural and construction equipment for CNH Industrial in Burlington, Iowa, and Racine, Wisconsin, have been on strike since May 2.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of the strike is the company\u2019s three-tier pay system. Workers hired before 1996 make $6 to $8 more per hour than those hired after 2004; those hired between 1996 and 2004 earn somewhere in between. Workers want to see at least the bottom tier abolished.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are also fired up that their counterparts at CNH\u2019s non-union plants make an estimated $5.50 more per hour than the average union worker, according to UAW Local 807 President Nick Guernsey.\u00a0\u201cWe're wanting parity between us and non-union plants,\u201d Guernsey told the\u00a0Hawk Eye.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/farm-and-construction-equipment-workers-strike-in-iowa-and-wisconsin\/\">Farm and Construction Equipment Workers Strike in Iowa and Wisconsin<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/farm-and-construction-equipment-workers-strike-in-iowa-and-wisconsin\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven hundred workers who manufacture agricultural and construction equipment for CNH Industrial in Burlington, Iowa, and Racine, Wisconsin, have been on strike since May 2.<br \/>\nAt the core of the strike is the company\u2019s three-tier pay system. Workers hir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629,5720,1667,4014,6162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683110,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682880\/revisions\/683110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}