Despite the company's earnings increase, Mondelēz wants to restructure its overtime pay policies, a move that workers say would cost them tens of thousands of dollars a year in wages. The striking workers, as led by the BCTGM International Union, are going to need all the support they can get to successfully negotiate with the snack giant. In late July, Mondelez celebrated that its profits had nearly doubled in the last quarter. Nabisco workers who are unionized with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) began striking over what they say are contract issues with. Meanwhile - per Vice – Frito-Lay workers from Kansas (who went on strike recently to end triple-overtime shifts) have sent Nabisco workers on picket lines pizza. Nabisco workers with Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 364 picket Saturday outside a bakery owned by Mondelez International in Portland, Ore. Updated on: Septem/ 11:53 AM / MoneyWatch More than 1,000 Nabisco workers in five states are returning to their jobs this week after striking since early August over the snack. Nabisco bakeries that make Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies and Ritz Crackers have gone on strike to protest proposed changes amid contract negotiations. Hundreds of workers who make and deliver Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers have gone on strike in a massive showdown with Nabisco parent company Mondelez. The monthlong strike by the bakers’ union at the Nabisco. (Justin Yau) By Sophie Peel Septemat 9:54 pm PDT. On August 18, DeVito urged his followers on Twitter not to buy Nabisco products until its parent company Mondelēz, concedes to the strikers' demands. Hundreds of union employees at three U.S. Nabisco workers have ratified a tentative agreement on a new contract with their parent company Mondelez International, ending a strike that began in Portland more than five weeks ago and spread. A September strike rally outside Nabisco's bakery in North Portland. On the contrary, it's picking up supporters, among them former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (via Twitter) and Hollywood heavyweight Danny DeVito. How big is the strike, exactly? The protest started last week in Portland, Oregon, and has since spread to Richmond, Virginia, and Aurora, Colorado according to Eater.
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