BREAKING: The 1400 striking Kellogg’s workers have courageously voted to reject the contract offer from the breakfast giant.
They walked out 9 weeks ago after years of 16-hour shifts, forced overtime, and uneven pay.
They’ve won some gains, but there’s one big sticking point.
Workers rejected several contracts before this one, blocking Kellogg’s attempt to cut off newer and future employees from attaining full-time pay and benefits.
Veteran workers told us they wouldn’t “sell our souls” and abandon their younger colleagues.
By voting down the contract, workers are showing unbreakable solidarity.
The deal called for a 3% raise for “legacy” employees, a category that now includes workers on the job for at least four years.
But they would not accept the continued division.
Kellogg’s has already started to bring in permanent, non-union scabs. It will also send jobs to Mexico.
The company made $3.6 billion this year. Its CEO was given a $11 million paycheck last year.
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SCOOP: Dollar General was caught illegally intimidating workers just days before a store in Barkhamsted, CT, is set to vote on whether to form the company’s first U.S. union.
District managers visited the store Saturday and threatened to close the store if workers voted YES.
.@UFCW will file charges with the NLRB against Dollar General for conducting illegal union busting activities.
The union vote is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 22.
Workers at the Dollar General store told @hamiltonnolan that they are seeking to unionize “as a result of poor treatment of employees by a Dollar General district manager.” inthesetimes.com/article/dollar…
Why did Democrats who once supported allowing the government to cut prescription costs by negotiating drug prices with Big Pharma turn around and try to block it?
Last week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee voted against a provision in @POTUS's reconciliation bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. Democrats Rice, Schrader, and Peters cast the deciding 'no' votes — defying their constituents' wishes:
Per @DataProgress, *over 90% of voters* in Rice, Schrader, and Peters' districts want drug price reform. Nationwide, drug price reform is incredibly popular across partisan lines — 82% of Republicans, 84% of Independents, and 90% of Democrats support it.
NEW: Minnesota police are using brutal physical violence and “pain compliance” against water protectors and Line 3 pipeline protestors.
The torture tactics have left some activists with partial facial paralysis.
Enbridge Energy, the multinational corporation building the tar sands oil pipeline, is funding the police who torture, harass, and surveil protestors opposing Line 3.
Enbridge has now paid police & sheriffs in Minnesota $2 million to protect the pipeline.
Police have also used tear gas and rubber bullets against the unarmed protestors.
.@JoeBiden and Democrats' $3.5 trillion infrastructure package hangs by a thread due to conservative Democrats' refusal to abolish the filibuster. @AJentleson broke down for us how the filibuster has historically been used to impede progress and change.
Conservative politicians have historically used the filibuster to block civil rights, worker rights, and good jobs for all. Mitch McConnell has been particularly adept at wielding the filibuster to block progress, tanking campaign finance reform and worker protections.
The filibuster also played a starring role in creating the racial wealth gap in the United States — it was used by racist Southern Democrats to leave Black and Latino people out of the New Deal, and left domestic and agricultural workers out of minimum wage laws.
Tesla has big ambitions to lead the world into the future of clean energy. But in a series of exposes by More Perfect Union, we found that Tesla's work environment resembles sweatshops of the past: brutal working conditions, union-busting, and horrific racism.
In June, we told the story of Tesla’s union-busting tactics against workers like Richard Ortiz, who spoke on camera for the first time about being forced to work 12hr days 6 days/week in dangerous conditions. He was fired for organizing Tesla’s CA factory.
Former Tesla worker Dennis Duran echoed Ortiz's testimony about the brutal working conditions at Tesla when he spoke with us about his experiences at the CA plant.
"All [management] cared about is hitting numbers, doing whatever they can to please Elon."
Starbucks is intensifying its union-busting campaign against workers in Buffalo, who are trying to form the first union in company history with @SBWorkersUnited.
Tomorrow the company will force baristas to sit through offsite union-busting meetings (free valet parking provided).
We're told that top Starbucks executives will be at these meetings. If workers refuse to attend, they can be disciplined.
Mandatory "captive audience" meetings like these would be illegal under the PRO Act, which passed the House in March but is stalled in the Senate.
The meetings are likely to be run by Littler Mendelson, an infamous union-busting firm that Starbucks has hired to help stop its employees from organizing.
For decades, Littler has had "a reputation for take-no-prisoners tactics with unions."