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A Salaried John Deere Employee Reportedly Hit A Striking UAW Member With A Car
If you havent heard already, John Deere workers recently went on strike. The corporate response was to bring in salaried employees and others to keep the factory running, which as you can imagine, has not exactly gone well. But according to the latest report, the situation got a lot worse after one of those employees drove their car into a striking UAW member.
Details are still scarce, so well update this post if more information becomes available. However, according to Jonah Furman, a journalist covering the strike on the ground, the driver was a salaried Deere employee. Thankfully, Furman says the UAW member wasnt seriously injured or killed.
Link to tweet
As Furman points out, though, this isnt a one-off incident. Its happened several times at different strikes so far this year. Its horrible any time someone attempts to murder someone else with their car, but it sounds like workers participating in the the Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama have been targets of this particular type of violence. According to journalist Kim Kelly, there have been five separate car attacks that sent multiple people to the hospital.
Link to tweet
There will probably be plenty of people who try to both-sides these incidents, but unless youre an awful person whos completely devoid of empathy, its hard to see how that makes any sense. These people inconvenienced me, so I stabbed one of them a few times, wouldnt work as an excuse, but somehow its supposed to be different because they used a car?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/a-salaried-john-deere-employee-reportedly-hit-a-striking-uaw-member-with-a-car/ar-AAPI86B
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A Salaried John Deere Employee Reportedly Hit A Striking UAW Member With A Car (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Oct 2021
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aren't there states that passed laws shielding drivers who hit strikers or protestors?
getagrip_already
Oct 2021
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getagrip_already
(17,549 posts)1. aren't there states that passed laws shielding drivers who hit strikers or protestors?
I could swear I remember hearing that.......
multigraincracker
(34,326 posts)2. Throw in "Stand your Ground"
self defense laws. Could get interesting.
rurallib
(63,293 posts)3. yep - I live in one of them