US Kellogg employees strike as contract negotiations fail
Al Jazeera
A union representative says Kellogg has threatened to send additional jobs to Mexico if workers do not accept its proposals.
About 1,400 Kellogg Co cereal plant employees have gone on a strike in an effort to get the packaged foods maker to negotiate what a labour union called a “fair contract” for the workers.
The Froot Loops cereal maker has been negotiating the payment and benefits terms for a while now of a new contract – the existing one expired at midnight on Monday – with union workers who went on strike on Tuesday.
Kellogg has demanded that workers give up quality healthcare, retirement benefits, and holiday and vacation pay, said Anthony Shelton, the president of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
