Agreed, but that doesn't mean Deere is completely incapable of helping craft a deal, unless their entire role is just to wait for the Union to pass one over and then just say "yes" or "no" without any further input whatsoever. Which would only be setting them back further.That is literally the job of the union negotiating team. The fact they didn't do that is not on John Deere.
They wouldn't have to cut out leadership. Deere can easily gather information without having to dig too deep for it, then pass that back to the negotiating team if it's feasible for them to meet. These steps would speed up their re-negotiating now, if they want to get their labor back ASAP. Doing nothing but wait is the slowest way to get back to working.No offense but how could they possibly do that and cut out the leadership that negotiated the other agreement? I think the union would have huge, huge problems with that.
The whole point of the union is that it negotiates with the company as a united front. If they can't get on the same page I'm not sure what role the company even could have in fixing that.
Maybe I'm wrong and JDs only allowed role is literally to do nothing except stamp or not stamp a deal. If so, then this is going to be a while, because it doesn't matter who is crafting the deal when the workers aren't working regardless. I'm not saying it's entirely Deere's fault, I never have -- I get that the Union failed to properly vet out what the labor needs were. That said, Deere could still be able to help acquire information on those needs and work with the nego team on a deal around those things, since the nego team already failed at that once.