Tony the Tiger is a lousy boss. Kellogs people on strike.

[shortylickens]

Workers at Kellogg’s U.S. cereal plants go on strike

It wasn’t clear if the supply of Frosted Flakes or any of the company’s other iconic brands would be affected.

www.nbcnews.com

I think they will get screwed. When one company worth of laborers goes on strike they rarely get what they want. What we really need is for every working class schmuck in America to get organized and work for better conditions and pay everywhere.
But that will never happen. Most of us dont trust each other and many are too scared to fight the system. And the 1 percenters know that. They know they got us scared so on the grand scale, nothing will ever get better.

 

[Vic]

The same union just had a successful strike against Nabisco.

2021 Nabisco strike - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[KMFJD]

https://news.yahoo.com/cereal-killers-80-hour-weeks-123043469.html

- according to union workers, 72- to 84-hour work weeks — not a typo — that includes mandated overtime and a point system that dings you if you dare beg off

- “The worst is when you work a 7-to-7 and they tell you to come back at 3 a.m. on a short turnaround,” says Omaha BCTGM president Daniel Osborn, a mechanic at the plant. “You work 20, 30 days in a row and you don’t know where work and your life ends and begins.”

-Shortly after the strike began, management cut off their health care, and workers were forced to pay up to $2,980 in COBRA payments

those hours are insane, no one should be forced to do that

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Can we hear again how people just don't want to work and it's not the expectations that are pushing people away?

 

[IronWing]

On the other hand, I would send workers into the salt mines for Famous Amos.

 

[brycejones]

Bunch of lazy communists getting in the way of Kellog's shareholders earning a return on their hard won capital investments. Lots people don't have jobs and these ingrates have the nerve to demand they get paid more or work less?


/s

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Haven't bought their shit since I found out about their strike, and I buy a shitload of cereal. Not supporting that company while they're using scabs, fuck Kelloggs.

 

[hal2kilo]

People still stuck on the old "health food" scam.

 

[soulcougher73]

https://news.yahoo.com/cereal-killers-80-hour-weeks-123043469.html

- according to union workers, 72- to 84-hour work weeks — not a typo — that includes mandated overtime and a point system that dings you if you dare beg off

- “The worst is when you work a 7-to-7 and they tell you to come back at 3 a.m. on a short turnaround,” says Omaha BCTGM president Daniel Osborn, a mechanic at the plant. “You work 20, 30 days in a row and you don’t know where work and your life ends and begins.”

-Shortly after the strike began, management cut off their health care, and workers were forced to pay up to $2,980 in COBRA payments

those hours are insane, no one should be forced to do that

*spits out Cheez-It he was just eating*

 

[KMFJD]

It's kinda farking ironic that this was the company that had a 6 hour workday from the 30's until the 80's

What happened to the six-hour workday?

The tragic downfall of the 30-hour workweek

theweek.com

 

[IronWing]

Note: Kellog's sold off the Famous Amos brand a couple years back.

Edit: Keebler as well.

 

[UNCjigga]

I finally got the justification I need to for eating Lucky Charms as an adult! Go General Mills!!!

 

[pete6032]

-Shortly after the strike began, management cut off their health care, and workers were forced to pay up to $2,980 in COBRA payments

I swear this is one of the reasons big corporations don't want public health care, even though it would save them oodles of money. They would lose a major bargaining chip against unions.

 

[nakedfrog]

*spits out Cheez-It he was just eating*

I've been eating Ritz Cheese Crispers instead, they're not the same at all, but still a decent cheesy cracker.

 

[nOOky]

On the other hand, I would send workers into the salt mines for Famous Amos.

Amos got screwed, he was on Shark Tank trying to start another brand because he lost all rights to his name by more cleverer people.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Tony got Berned.

Bernie Sanders joins striking Kellogg's workers in Michigan and praises their 'incredible courage to take on corporate greed'

Business Insider|1 hour ago
"I talked to somebody who worked 120 days in a row and those, as I understand it, weren't even 8-hour days... That is insane!" Sanders said.


...

 

[shortylickens]

I've been eating Ritz Cheese Crispers instead, they're not the same at all, but still a decent cheesy cracker.

My room mate in the navy called me a decent cheesy cracker.
He was white.

 

[dainthomas]

Solidarity works. Not just the strikers, but all workers putting public pressure on management to reach a deal.

Kellogg’s Workers End Strike | HuffPost Impact

 

[JTsyo]

Solidarity works. Not just the strikers, but all workers putting public pressure on management to reach a deal.

Kellogg’s Workers End Strike | HuffPost Impact

I see nothing about the hours worked and getting enough workers to properly staff the plants.

 

[shortylickens]

Saw the news. I am happy.