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Members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) who work at Kellogg’s ready to eat cereal plants in Battle Creek, Mich., Lancaster, Pa., Omaha, Neb. and Memphis, Tenn. have voted to accept the recommended collective bargaining agreement. Approval o
STRIKES WORK! BOYCOTTS WORK! SOLIDARITY WORKS!
Okay I've seen some shit going around saying that the Kellogg's workers on strike don't want a boycott of Kellogg's or we don't know if they do or not, and I don't know what butthole that got pulled out of but here, from Kevin Bradshaw, Vice President of BCTGM Local 252G in Memphis, Tennessee:
[Text: Errol: So should folks skip the Frosted Flakes? Kevin: Oh, yeah. I mean, they got to go. Leave the cereal in the store. We make the lowest cost of cereal in the United States right here in Memphis, Tennessee, along with my three other sister plants in Omaha, Nebraska, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Battle Creek, Michigan. They talked about the $120,000 that we made a year but they didn't tell anyone that comes from mandatory daily overtime, fifteen hours a day, seven days a week non-stop. So we're fighting for our families, and we're here to stay. One day longer, one day stronger, and they’re threatening to bring scabs to replace us. We know during a lockout from 2013 they spent over almost $50 million in ten months to try to save $8 million with scabs. And we had scabs working in the plant that actually got tried and convicted and are in jail right now for urinating on the cereal belts. No one wants to eat “rice pispies”. You know what I mean? We want to eat Rice Krispies. End text]
Boycott Kellogg's.
Source: Forbes
There is enormous potential to not only build up support for the Kellogg’s strike among workers across the world, but to construct a global
The Kellogg’s workers’ demands will be familiar to millions of workers across the country: the reversal of attacks on pay and benefits, as well as an end to a divisive two-tier wage structure and the brutal overtime regime which the company has imposed during the pandemic. Brian Leche, an electrician at the Battle Creek plant, told local news: “Some people at the plant don’t have a scheduled day for the entire year. We aren’t willing to accept that anymore.”
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Particularly sinister is the BCTGM’s promotion of anti-Mexican chauvinism, blaming workers in Mexico for conditions in US plants. “A lot of Americans probably don’t have too much issue with the Nike or Under Armor hats being made elsewhere or even our vehicles, but when they start manufacturing our food down where they are out of the FDA control and OSHA control, I have a huge problem with that,” Daniel Osborne, the local president in Omaha, told the press. The union is also campaigning for a boycott of “made-in-Mexico Nabisco products.”
Kellogg’s is a multinational corporation, with 21 cereal factories in 18 countries outside of the United States, spread across every continent except Antarctica. Moreover, it has long carried out cuts to jobs and wages on a world scale. In 1995, the company fired 140 workers in Australia at the same time it announced over 1,000 job cuts in the United States. In 2014, it closed its plant in London, Ontario, putting 500 workers out of a job. The BCTGM’s promotion of American nationalism allows the company to isolate workers in the United States from their brothers and sisters in other countries, in a decades-long divide-and-conquer strategy.
The way forward for Kellogg’s workers is through the development of the broadest possible unity and collaboration with workers across the world, who share the same interests and the same common enemy. This requires the development of their independent initiative and organizations, outside and against the union, through the formation of rank-and-file strike committees. Such committees, democratically controlled by workers, will enable information to be shared across the plants, circumventing the blackout of the BCTGM. They will also allow Kellogg’s workers to link up with workers at Nabisco and Frito-Lay, in the meatpacking, auto and other industries, and elsewhere, in a common struggle against low pay and intolerable working conditions.
Full statement 👉 https://t.co/MFBJaEV2lH
no like. Keloggs is respecting collective bargaigning and union agreements in other countries in the world, should customers in a country where kelloggs is unionized still boycott? Is it not very likely that whilst its the same company at the top, they are different subsidiaries?
I mean, workers rights are more important and respected in almost every other country, so that's not surprising. Kellog's very much is a global company though, and I imagine that the "respecting agreements" thing is more a function of following the law in those countries.
I am not an expert in international business or anything, and I only know that at this time the striking workers are asking for a boycott. Whether that should apply internationally, I can't really speak to, but the point is to hurt the company financially, so I imagine international support would not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
the other comments on that kellogg’s strike post are painful to read
like can you not common sense it that continuing to buy product and thus pay for the scab labor means the company can ignore its striking workers? that if they’re still making money because folks are still buying and they’re doing it with non-union scabs then they’ll actually just see that they don’t need any union workers?
buying kellogg’s now, and especially “buying more to really give them hell” is the absolute worst thing you could do for the strike
Official Kellogg's Strike Funds
