Kellogg’s workers reject a contract offer that would have provided 3% raises, so 1,400 workers at the company’s four U.S. cereal plants will remain on strike.
Kellogg Co. workers turned down a contract offer Tuesday that would have provided 3% raises, so 1,400 workers at the company’s four U.S. cereal plants will remain on strike.
“The members have spoken. The strike continues,” union President Anthony Shelton said. “The International Union will continue to provide full support to our striking Kellogg’s members.”After decades of stagnating wages and diminishing pension and healthcare benefits, many U.S. workers are fed up. A small but growing number are organizing.
Rutgers University professor Todd Vachon, who teaches classes about labor relations, said he was not sure the company would be able to hire enough workers in the current economy to replace the ones who are out on strike, and Kellogg may have a hard time finding people willing to cross a picket line. The Battle Creek-based company said the new contract would allow all workers with at least four years’ experience to move up to the higher legacy pay level immediately, and some additional workers would move up in later years of the contract.
“A union depends on the solidarity of its members,” Chen said. “When you have two-tiered systems — which have become popular in corporate America — you’re weakening that solidarity. It turns workers against each other.”Kellogg went to court in Omaha in November to secure an order that set guidelines for how workers behaved on the picket line because the company said striking workers were blocking the plant’s entrances and intimidating replacement workers.
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