About 150 employees at John Deere’s Des Moines plant in Ankeny, Iowa, will soon be laid off.
According to KTVO, factory leaders notified employees of the layoffs on Friday. report Monday.
“The company announced that approximately 150 manufacturing employees will be ‘indefinitely laid off from April to May,'” the outlet continued.
Details regarding the decision are still shrouded in mystery. “Each John Deere plant balances the size of its production workforce with the needs of the individual plant, optimizing the workforce at each facility,” John Deere said in a statement.
The Ankeny plant reportedly has 1,700 employees, with more than 1,000 in production and maintenance positions.
Interestingly, John Deere announced in June 2022 that it plans to move part of its Waterloo, Iowa, tractor and cab assembly operations facility, where approximately 1,100 people worked, to Mexico by fiscal year 2024. was.
Breitbart News reported at the time:
Breitbart News previously reported that U.S. manufacturing jobs are being moved offshore to Mexico. In 2021, Ford Motor Co. announced plans to offshore a $900 million investment in a plant “originally planned for Avon Lake, Ohio” to a site in Mexico.
Breitbart News also reported this.[i]Approximately 108,846 Americans lost their jobs as a result of free trade in 2020, according to federal data.
In September, the John Deere Harvester Plant in East Moline, Illinois, laying More than 200 production workers were laid off, KWQC reported.
The layoffs represent “nearly 10 percent of Harvester Works’ workforce,” the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, Breitbart News reported on Monday that a recent study found that the wave of layoffs in the tech industry and the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) are making a big difference in terms of job security for Americans. It turns out that it causes anxiety.
“Fast Company” report “In recent months, large tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have announced a series of mass layoffs, creating an atmosphere of uncertainty across the workforce,” the paper said.
Adding to these concerns, AI has the potential to disrupt many types of jobs, the report added.
