Kellogg Plans to Permanently Replace 1,400
Striking Workers
Epoch Times,
by
Zachary Stieber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
12/11/2021 1:10:24 PM
Kellogg plans to permanently replace some 1,400 workers who have been striking since October, the company announced this week.
Kellogg and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union failed to reach a new contract agreement, leading to the planned change.
“We have made every effort to reach a fair agreement, including making six offers to the union throughout negotiations, all which have included wage and benefits increases for every employee. It appears the union created unrealistic expectations for our employees,” Chris Hood, president of Kellogg North America, said in a recent statement.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Stencil 12/11/2021 1:19:31 PM (No. 1003674)
I don't have thoughts on the merits of the arguments but will note that these labor negotiations are a hallmark of inflationary periods. When inflation leads to steep labor cost increases you can be assured it was never transitory. Expect more.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/11/2021 1:19:59 PM (No. 1003676)
The union bosses are always paid well. As members lose their jobs because of inept, overpaid, 'leaders.' maybe it will occur to them to vote in better leaders, not expect to get more money from the company they work for by striking, get a different job or not join a union. I doubt any of these things will happen due to human greed and willingness to go with the herd.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 12/11/2021 1:29:57 PM (No. 1003684)
I am no fan of the company. Kellogg has been a lefty, obnoxious company, and I have stopped purchasing their products after a lifetime of using them.
I am not much of a fan of unions, since in most cases that I have known about from relatively close contact, I have seen that he unions were causing inefficiency and trouble, wasting money and time, and protecting the lazy, unskilled and incompetent from being treated the way that they should have been treated.....fired or demoted, or just paid less than the hard working, skilled and especially competent other workers.
So.....too bad that they can't both lose.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 12/11/2021 1:47:25 PM (No. 1003715)
The union is obviously not negotiating in good faith, taking a my way or the highway approach. You can't blame the company for running out of patience and deciding to cut its losses and move on. Brandon, predictably, is deeply troubled that his union buddies are about to take it in the pants, but then he's perpetually troubled, so no news there.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 12/11/2021 1:54:41 PM (No. 1003726)
I once belonged to a union. The union bosses always seemed to get benefits denied the rank and file. The union helped them with cars and houses. Then, quite by chance, I saw matching rings worn by a union officer and his wife. Set in small diamonds and rubies was a Soviet hammer and sickle, small but visible under the right light. I challenged them about this but they laughed it off. I later changed jobs and left the union. I'm not much of a union supporter.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hershey 12/11/2021 1:54:53 PM (No. 1003727)
I used to be in a BIG union, got caught up in two strikes and got nothing in the way of help from the union during either strike...I was so glad to get promoted and leave their clutches..then got caught up on another one and had to pull strike duty in Minneapolis, long before it became Mogidashu west...it was a nice city...loved the skywalks connecting the downtown buildings...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 12/11/2021 2:10:05 PM (No. 1003742)
Non-craft unions had their place back in the days of child labor, when workers were being mangled in machines and tossed aside or even worked to death etc. That day is gone in this country. Unions are now and have been for the past half century just an extortion and money funneling scheme to line Democrat pockets and make the Union big wigs wealthy. Unions are just a a tool of greedy "redistribution" now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/11/2021 2:11:20 PM (No. 1003745)
Here is the offer they turned down..part of the reason is that Deere workers just got a 10% increase.
The whole kerfuffle about 2 tier wages is something THEY created, agreed to...now want to back out of. Their biggest problem is they traded "Legacy" wage increases and benefit increases for retirees for "delayed" company contributions to the health/retirement funds/new workers pay scale, they then mis-invested many of the existing H/R funds into woke stuff that went broke. My Union (carpenters) did much the same, while the stock market boomed, our funds bet on losers and are terribly in the Red.(We tried to get the Union bosses to NOT donate in the last Presidential cycle because the rank&file was evenly split over Trump/Biden, and instead take that money to prop up our retirement funds...instead they were one of Dem/Bidens largest donors)
GM had a similar issue leading to It's bankruptcy. Too many of these companies have become "Workers Pension Companies with a manufacturing problem", Rather than Manufacturing companies with a pension problem. Cities, counties and the Postal Service are even worse off...waaaay in the red, and more retirees than workers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/11/2021 2:11:25 PM (No. 1003746)
Unions are making more demands due to the inflation, not understanding the companies do not have the money to meet those demands. Living standards in the U.S. are going to drop due to a stagnant, low growth economy. The inflation is caused by money printing, and there is no solution but to stop the government spending and money printing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/11/2021 2:12:00 PM (No. 1003747)
oops...forgot the link..https://www.13abc.com/2021/12/02/striking-kelloggs-workers-get-3-raises-new-contract/
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/11/2021 2:15:31 PM (No. 1003752)
Chances are Kellogg has plants in Mexico where Mexican workers earn much less than Kellogg’s American workers who are now on strike. With the Biden “open border” situation, and if there are Kellogg plants in Mexico, it would not take long for 1,400 Mexican workers to show up in American Kellogg plants to replace the fired 1,400 American workers, of course to work at whatever pay that Kellogg offers them. Just saying!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 12/11/2021 2:47:01 PM (No. 1003769)
I wonder how many of these striking workers would really just want to get back to work, but the union thugs and bosses are preventing many of them from returning. I'll bet at least 75% of them would have gone back to work by now.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
coyote 12/11/2021 3:04:36 PM (No. 1003774)
This is much like the GM "bailout" of 10, 11 yeas ago. Unions insisted upon keeping plants open while sales were falling until the company was unable to pay what they wanted. Then came the bankruptcy, just as sure as the sun rising in the east. Obama took credit for the 12 billion put into the company to save a few jobs but the company still had to shrink in size to survive. Our local GM dealer, in business for 80 years, went Honda.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/11/2021 3:04:56 PM (No. 1003775)
When are workers going to realize - - that the communists who organize these unions are only out to enrich themselves?
I can remember newspaper and brewery strikes in New York City sixty years ago - - which only resulted in the newspapers and breweries either going out of business - - or fleeing New York.
The fictional "Norma Rae" was presented as some kind of heroine - - for organizing fabric workers in the Carolinas - - but before the movie was even released - - all of those jobs had fled the area because of the unions.
Once again we learn - - stupid can't be fixed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 12/11/2021 3:13:34 PM (No. 1003779)
Quit the union, go back to work. I think that is what I'd be considering if I was a union worker.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 12/11/2021 4:14:24 PM (No. 1003826)
The biggest picket sign says "Stop Sending jobs To Mexico". I suspect the plan all along is to move the plant and jobs to Mexico. Trump would say don't send the jobs to Mexico and then expect to sell the products back to US, but Biden is all for it. Finding good workers is hard these days, millions of jobs are going unfilled all over the country. I don't see how Kellogg will replace them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
joew9 12/11/2021 5:38:09 PM (No. 1003882)
I believe we are seeing that many replacement workers coming across the border everyday.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cheeflo 12/11/2021 5:39:06 PM (No. 1003884)
What they want is for the company to be handed over to the unions. That Kellogg created all those jobs in the first place means nothing. Even the viability of the company is meaningless to them ... look what the union did to Hostess, among others.
Destruction of the business is a victory for the unions.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cheeflo 12/11/2021 5:40:01 PM (No. 1003886)
Oh, yes they can, #3.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol 12/11/2021 5:51:47 PM (No. 1003894)
And Joe Biden remains silent as jobs leave America...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/11/2021 6:50:47 PM (No. 1003915)
I guess I just don't care.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Muguy 12/12/2021 9:23:32 AM (No. 1004287)
Following the trail of Nabisco, now called Mondelez (read: MEXICO).
Premium saltine crackers produced in Mexico are substandard. Just about EVERYTHING is in Mexico now. Cheap labor, cheep product. Triscuits are still produced here.
Kellogg's bought our Sunshine who makes Cheez-its-- they are now substandard with less flavor. The Keebler Elves disappeared too and those products are now substandard.
As for the two-tiered contract, they are finding out that the company that brought you Tony the Tiger is more interested in sponsoring the "Tony the Tiger Bowl" than in taking care of the workers. (Yes! There is a Tony the Tiger Bowl game this year! to go with the Cheezits Bowl!!)
We are learning a hard lesson that dependence on foreign produced products not only threatens our 'horn of plenty' of cheap goods, but also our national security.
What is going to be left--
No more Woke Coke products, No more woke Pepsi/Frito-Lay products, et cetera. etc. etc.
Bill Gates buying up farmland, China owning the largest producer of pork products, whee will it stop??
Great timing, Kellogg's
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/12/2021 11:12:43 AM (No. 1004452)
Give us ALL yo money, a typical Union Demand...then they crawl some of the demands back but only in a fistfight!
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Curious to see LCom reactions. Two months of striking. The union leaders are too often at fault. Dems’ hair on fire - “how dare they replace striking workers?"