By Taylor Johnston Source: The New York Times Unionization efforts involving some of the most recognizable names in business have dominated headlines across the United States in recent months. Starbucks workers in Buffalo and Amazon employees in Bessemer, Ala., and on Staten Island have recently moved to unionize, as have [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times About 1,400 striking workers at four Kellogg cereal plants in the United States have rejected a tentative agreement on a five-year contract negotiated by their union, the company said on Tuesday. The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, which [...]
By Stephen Rodrick Source: Rolling Stone The shelves at the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union Local 50 are lined with boxes of Kellogg’s products that the union members and their mothers, brothers, and grandfathers have packed over the past century. A Froot Loops box commemorating the [...]
Source: BCTGM.org Late last night, BCTGM negotiators reached a tentative agreement with Kellogg’s on a new contract. In the coming days, the Local Union officers on the bargaining committee will present the tentative agreement to their respective memberships who will then vote on the agreement on Sunday, December 5 at [...]
By Laina Stebbins Source: Michigan Advance Negotiations between union workers and cereal giant Kellogg are set to restart this week, as workers at the company’s four cereal plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Tennessee near two months of striking for better wages, better hours and the end of a two-tier [...]
By Praveen Paramasivam Source: Reuters Kellogg Co. said on Tuesday it plans to hire permanent replacements for some of its U.S. breakfast cereal plant workers who are on strike, after lengthy negotiations with the union again fell apart. The workers went on strike on Oct. 5 after their contracts expired [...]
Source: KETV The Kellogg's strike in Omaha is one of many strikes for Liz Shuler, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Shuler said she believes the momentum is on the side of the strikers. With another day on strike at the Kellogg's plant in [...]
By Allie Jennerjahn Source: WWMT.com National labor leaders and union members from across Michigan rallied at Kellogg Headquarters in Battle Creek Wednesday to show support to those on strike, and thank those that are joining the fight. The initial strike began Oct. 4 after worker’s contracts expired and the union [...]