Several hundred workers at a Kellogg’s plant that makes Cheez-Its won a new contract that delivers more than 15% wage increases over three years after 1,400 workers at the company’s cereal plants went on strike for nearly three months last fall.
Earlier this month, an overwhelming majority of workers voted down a five-year offer that would have provided 3% raises and cost of living adjustments in the later years of the deal to most but not all employees.
The 1,400 workers of Kellogg’s plants in Omaha, Memphis, Battle Creek, Mich., and Lancaster, Pa., have been on strike since their contract expired on Oct. 5.
Members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union will vote Sunday on the new offer that includes cost-of-living adjustments and a $1.10 per hour raise for all employees.
Kellogg’s is facing increasing political pressure to resume contract talks with its 1,400 striking cereal plant workers.
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Kellogg’s said it will now move forward with plans to start hiring permanent replacements for the striking workers.
Roughly 1,400 workers at Kellogg’s four U.S. cereal plants have been on strike since Oct. 5.
The Kellogg’s workers have been on strike since Oct. 5, and now they will have to continue picketing through Thanksgiving.
Secretary Walsh said he and Biden stand for union workers’ right to bargain.