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bakeries and telling the rest of us we have to take concessions, what kind of thanks is that?' Mondelez made record profits and they want to thank us by closing two of the U.S. 'During the pandemic, we all were putting in a lot of hours, demand was higher, people were at home, and the snack food industry did phenomenally well. 'This fight is about maintaining what we already have,' Mike Burlingham, vice president of BCTGM Local 364 in Portland, told Today. Nabisco workers stress that they are not asking for more pay or benefits. Workers are also rejecting a Mondelez proposal to create different employee health plans under which new hires would pay more, including deductibles-which do not exist under the current system. Meanwhile, Nabisco workers have been forced to work 12 to 16 hour shifts, six to seven days a week, during the pandemic, while the company seeks to eliminate overtime pay by altering employee schedules so that weekend shifts become part of the 40-hour work week.

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Dirk Van de Put, Mondelez's new CEO, could earn more than $17 million in compensation, plus a $38 million one-time windfall, this year. snack consumption rising during the pandemic, Mondelez's 2020 revenue increased to $26.6 billion, according to Chicago Business Journal, with profits of $3.6 billion and a 6% annual increase in share price. The most recent agreement expired in May. Workers at Nabisco plants in Aurora, Colorado and Richmond, Virginia followed suit, saying they planned to strike until Nabisco's parent company, multinational confectionery corporation Mondelez International, agrees to negotiate a new contract. The strike began August 10 when around 200 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers' (BCTGM) International Union Local 364 walked out of a Nabisco factory in Portland, Oregon that makes Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, as well as Ritz, Premium saltines, and other crackers. We're tired of getting stepped on and treated like trash. They only care about the almighty dollar. 'They don't care about frontline workers. plants who are demanding better working conditions, an end to foreign outsourcing, and the withdrawal of a company plan that would scrap the company's current guaranteed overtime pay system.

Mondelez said it has activated its business continuity plan and is committed to supplying its snacks to retailers and customers.Employees at Nabisco's flagship plant in Chicago walked off the job Thursday, joining workers at three of the leading snack maker's other U.S. The company said it wants to move some workers on high-demand lines to alternative schedules alternating three-to-four days a week in addition to revising overtime rules. The AP reported that the union claimed the contract proposals included a new alternative work schedule for employees and no premium pay for working on weekends, but Mondelez said that was a misinterpretation. Mondelez said that no jobs from the closed plants had been moved to Mexico, and that it was focusing its US biscuit operations on East Coast bakeries in the Midwest and on the West Coast, including all three bakeries on strike. The discussion revolving around outsourcing jobs to Mexico stems from the closure of two US bakeries in New Jersey and Georgia that were announced in February and have since been completed. The contracts presented during negotiations three weeks ago focused on narrowing the issues and setting up the US bakeries for future investment and long-term success, and they were rejected by union leadership, according to the company. Mondelez issued a statement about the strike today, saying the company is disappointed by the local unionвЂ™s decisions to continue striking and will continue to вЂњbargain in good faithвЂќ with union leadership around the country. The union membership has not yet voted on a contract. The company has been negotiating a new four-year contract since the expiration of the previous one in May, which covers union employees at six Mondelez sites. CHICAGO вЂ“ Hundreds of union employees at Nabisco bakeries, the producers of Oreo cookies and other popular snack brands, are on strike this week protesting NabiscoвЂ™s parent company, Mondelez International.Д®mployees at Nabisco bakeries in Portland, OR Richmond, VA and Chicago, in addition to employees at sales distribution facilities in Colorado and Illinois, are pushing back against concessions in contract negotiations and calling for an end to the outsourcing of jobs to Mexico, according to a report from the Associated Press (AP).

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