19 Aug Nabisco Workers in Chicago on Strike

[Omaha Steve]

Posted in LBN: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142788097

[douglas9]

1. 'No Contracts, No Snacks': Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US

"If Nabisco can rake in billions of dollars in corporate profits, they can afford to treat their workers with dignity and respect."

Employees at Nabisco's flagship plant in Chicago walked off the job Thursday, joining workers at three of the leading snack maker's other U.S. plants who are demanding better working conditions, an end to foreign outsourcing, and the withdrawal of a company plan that would scrap the company's current guaranteed overtime pay system.

"They don't care about frontline workers. They only care about the almighty dollar. We're tired of getting stepped on and treated like trash. We've had enough."
—Rusty Lewis, Nabisco worker

The strike began August 10 when around 200 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers' (BCTGM) International Union Local 364 walked out of a Nabisco factory in Portland, Oregon that makes Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, as well as Ritz, Premium saltines, and other crackers.

Workers at Nabisco plants in Aurora, Colorado and Richmond, Virginia followed suit, saying they planned to strike until Nabisco's parent company, multinational confectionery corporation Mondelez International, agrees to negotiate a new contract. The most recent agreement expired in May.


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/20/no-contracts-no-snacks-nabisco-workers-strike-across-us