It’s back to work for the ten thousand John Deere workers in Iowa and three other states. Members of the UAW voted to accept the latest offer from the company and the plants are already back up and running.

Overall 61 percent of the workers voted to approve the contract. Of the five Deere facilities in Iowa, only the Waterloo plant voted against pack with 56 percent voting no.

In a written statement, U-A-W International president Ray Curry said the strike at John Deere seemed to unite the nation behind the struggle for fairness in the workplace. Deere and Company C-E-O John May also issued a statement, calling the wage and benefit package groundbreaking in many ways.