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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Oct 19, 2021, 11:46 AM Oct 2021

A Salaried John Deere Employee Reportedly Hit A Striking UAW Member With A Car

If you haven’t 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 we’ll 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 wasn’t seriously injured or killed.




As Furman points out, though, this isn’t a one-off incident. It’s happened several times at different strikes so far this year. It’s 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.




There will probably be plenty of people who try to both-sides these incidents, but unless you’re an awful person who’s completely devoid of empathy, it’s hard to see how that makes any sense. “These people inconvenienced me, so I stabbed one of them a few times,” wouldn’t work as an excuse, but somehow it’s 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 OP
aren't there states that passed laws shielding drivers who hit strikers or protestors? getagrip_already Oct 2021 #1
Throw in "Stand your Ground" multigraincracker Oct 2021 #2
yep - I live in one of them rurallib Oct 2021 #3

getagrip_already

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1. aren't there states that passed laws shielding drivers who hit strikers or protestors?
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 11:50 AM
Oct 2021

I could swear I remember hearing that.......

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