Approximately 10,100 members of the United Auto Workers will extend their strike into a third week after rank-and-file union members of farm and construction equipment maker, John Deere, voted down Tuesday what the company called its best and final proposal. The second proposal included an $8,500 ratification bonus, a 10 percent pay increment, 30 percent wage increases over the term of contract, improved retirement benefits and parental leave pay, and a post-retirement health care fund seeded by $2,000 per year of service. According to The Washington Post, Marc Howze, the company’s chief administrative officer said in a Wednesday interview that they were done negotiating and satisfied to have narrowed the margin between the two proposals. Howze was referring to the first proposal on Oct. 1 which was rejected by the workers with a 90 percent vote margin. The current vote was closer with the margin reduced to 55 percent who …