A summer of labor unrest at U.S. food manufacturers has stretched into the fall, as pandemic-weary workers continue to strike for better pay. This week, some 1,400 workers at Kellogg Co.’s U.S. cereal plants walked off the job.
Workers from a Kellogg's cereal plant picket along the main rail lines leading into the facility on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in Omaha, Neb. Workers have gone on strike after a breakdown in contract talks with company management. .
The actions come on top of strikes earlier this summer by 600 workers at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, and 1,000 workers at five Nabisco plants across the U.S. In June, Smithfield Foods narrowly avoided a strike by thousands of workers at a plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Long said he and others are upset about a two-tiered system of employees that gives fewer benefits and less pay to newer workers, creating a wedge within the ranks. Long said the company wants to get rid of a provision that currently caps the lower tier of workers at 30% of the workforce.
“Workers in general are demanding that companies invest more in the workforce and not just use the profits for the shareholders,” she said.
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