Additional Layoffs at John Deere Dubuque Works

John Deere Dubuque Works will lay off a total of more than 260 employees from its plant in the next five weeks. Reports say a total of 159 employees at John Deere Dubuque Works were informed Monday afternoon that they will be placed on indefinite layoff effective June 1^st. The impacted employees’ last day at work will be May 29th. The move will be in addition to 105 layoffs at John Deere Dubuque Works that first were announced in February. Those originally were set to take effect April 6th, but those employees’ layoff date has since been pushed back to Monday, May 4^th.