The nine week-long workers’ strike against cereal giant Kellogg is set to continue, following a weekend vote in which 1,400 Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and...
Over 1,400 striking hourly employees across four Kellogg cereal plants rejected the company's tentative agreement for a five-year contract during negotiations between Kellogg and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Mille
About 1,400 workers have been on strike since Oct. 5 at four Kellogg cereal plants in the United States over a dispute that has revolved around the company’s two-tier compensation structure.
Workers at four Kellogg cereal plants have rejected a tentative labor deal, voting to continue their two-month long strike at the company, the union announced Tuesday.
Temporary employees have been working at the company's cereal plants across Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee after the strike began in October.
Kellogg’s workers rejected 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.
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.
The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union said its members “overwhelmingly voted to reject the tentative agreement” Sunday, more than three months after employees went on strike.
Kellogg’s said it will now move forward with plans to start hiring permanent replacements for the striking workers. The company has already been using salaried employees and outside workers to keep the plants operating during the strike.
The union representing about 1,400 Kellogg cereal-plant workers rejected the tentative labor agreement reached by negotiators last week, prolonging a strike that began more than two months ago.
Kellogg’s workers have overwhelmingly rejected a new contract that would have given them 3% raises, so the strike that began Oct. 5 will continue at the company’s four U.S. cereal plants.
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