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13 Dec, 11 tweets, 6 min read
1. @KelloggsUS claims the company still reflects the values of founder W.K. Kellogg but the way the company treats its employees today is the polar opposite

W.K. Kellogg said: "I will invest my money in people"

@KelloggsUS views its people as disposable

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@KelloggsUS 2. W.K. Kellogg offered free daycare and Kindergarten for the children of working mothers

All employees families received full medical and dental benefits

He surrounded his cereal plant with a lush 10-acre garden for his employees' use

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3. As the Great Depression gripped the country in 1930 W.K. Kellogg reduced shifts from 8-hrs to 6-hrs so that he could hire people who had been laid off

He also increased hourly pay so that workers would still bring home roughly the same amount of money

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4. Today's @KelloggsUS workers routinely work 80 hr weeks

The company has been in a dispute with its union and soon after the union went on strike in October, @KelloggUS cut off medical benefits, forcing workers to pay thousands in COBRA or go uninsured

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5. In 2015, the company claimed it would have to shut down plants unless the union allowed it to hire new workers at a lower hourly rate. So they agreed to it.

But now the cereal business is booming. The company brought in $1.4B in profits so far in 2021

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6. But @KelloggsUS is still insisting on maintaining (and the union says expanding) the group of workers at a much lower hourly rate

The company's first offer was "a contract that made all new workers part of the lower tier with no chance of advancement"

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7. Once a strike was declared when the last contract expired in October, the company brought in "in strikebreakers that it has put up at the local Doubletree Hotel, paying them $30 an hour and giving them a $75 per diem."

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8. Now @KelloggsUS says it has no plans to negotiate further with the union and will replace the striking workers permanently.

This is (maybe) legal but (definitely) controversial tactic. It is essentially the most anti-worker tactic a company can take.

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9. @KelloggsUS today bears no resemblance to the company built by W.K. Kellogg.

I'll be following this story closely as the labor dispute continues

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10. The need to reduce labor costs apparently doesn't apply to CEO compensation.

Total annual compensation for Kellogg's CEO has increased from $7.6M in 2014 to $11.7M in 2020

That's an increase of about 54%

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11. The ratio of CEO pay to the pay of the median Kellogg's worker increased from 183 to 1 in 2017, the first year such data is available, to 279 to 1 in 2020.

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1. The "Dinner With Trump" scam is back!

The @NRSC is running Facebook ads promoting a dinner with Trump.

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It has no product, no customers, and no revenue.

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9 Dec
1. Trump lost Michigan by more than 150K votes but its still been at the center of his false claims of election fraud

Trump's allies have tried to pass new voting restrictions this year but they were vetoed by the governor

So now they have a new scheme

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3. And that's exactly what Trump's allies in Michigan are doing. They are collecting signatures to make it harder to vote and then are going to try to jam that through the legislature.

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1. If you are wondering where this anti-CRT stuff is going a new bill in New Hampshire would require teachers to put a positive spin on slavery.

Seriously.

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2. The "teacher loyalty" bill would prohibit, in most circumstances, "any doctrine or theory promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the U.S."

This includes "teaching that the United States was founded on racism"

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3. So how would a teacher explain the 3/5ths compromise "which basically invalidated the humanity of enslaved people who were black"

A sponsor of the bill said teachers should say that the 3/5th compromise was an effort to END slavery

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1. In 2021 a slew of dark-money groups were formed to drive opposition to Critical Race Theory. They are organized as non-profits, which means their donors can stay secret.

But the public is entitled to some information about these groups, including how they spend their money
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There is really no justification for this.
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