Our members are scared of the unknown, said Jerry Messer, president of the Davenport chapter of the United Food and Production Workers, which represents workers. But he said he was glad jobs werent expected to be cut for two years, and he hoped the new factory would eventually bring growth.
Jerry Messer, a longtime friend and former president of the Quad-City Federation of Labor, remembered Evans as a man who always had time for constituents so much so that having a quiet lunch at a public diner meant having to go to the Iowa side of the Quad-Cities.