 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. The United States is witnessing the largest private sector strike since 2019. Over 10,000 John Deere production and warehouse workers downed their tools across 14 facilities on October 14th as part of the nationwide strike. John Deere is the largest agricultural equipment and machinery company, employing close to 70,000 workers around the world. Workers in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas walked off the job at midnight, just days after they voted by 90 percent to reject a tentative contract agreement. This is the first time since the UAW strike of 1986 that John Deere workers have rejected the company's contract offer. The 1986 strike went on for more than five months and eventually ended in a victory for the workers. The main point of contention for workers this time around is the three-tiered system of wages and benefits. The new system has added another tier of workers on top of the already existing two-tier system. It would deny newly hired workers certain benefits such as contributions to their pensions and healthcare coverage following their retirement. The workers also cited inadequate wage increases as a major reason for rejecting the contract offer. Workers also say that they have been forced to do overtime consistently, some working 12-hour days, six days a week. Amid the abysmal wages and undercutting of workers' benefits, John Deere has reported record profits in 2021. With a $4.7 billion profit in the first three-quarters of this year, the company has beat its past record by 63 percent. CEO John C. May saw his pay increase by 160 percent during the pandemic. This strike is the latest in a wave of labor actions across the country. 1,400 workers with the famous serial manufacturer Kellogg's have been on strike since early October and 60,000 Hollywood film crew members could go on strike on Monday, October 18th.