The local John Deere plant is part of the nationwide strike. No mention of it in the local media. Maybe the local daily will put it in the paper sometime next week. The Urinal, which publishes two days a week, will probably never get the story in the paper. Every employee at the Urinal is either part time or works primarily for the daily. It is a good thing the local radio stations have gotten less crappy about putting local news on the air.
The local refinery has several unions, some of which have contracts that are due to be renegotiated in the next year. Workers are tired of being treated like garbage while the Grand Poobahs make out like bandits. Frito Lay’s plant in Topeka went on a 23 day strike in July because of mandatory overtime. This is an issue at John Deere as welll
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