Congressional Progressives Urge Kellogg's to End Lockout

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Congressional-Progressives-Urge-Kellogg-s-to-End-Lockout



This is a cross-post on the Kellogg Company lockout from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM).


02/06/2014



The continued inaction by the Kellogg Company on the lockout of more than 220 workers at its Memphis, Tenn., cereal plant has drawn the attention of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). The Congressional Progressive Caucus consists of 75 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from around the country and is the largest caucus within the House Democratic Caucus.

In a letter on behalf of the CPC to Kellogg Company CEO John Bryant, the co-chairs of the CPC—U.S. Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) —questioned the company’s plan to create a new “workforce of the future” and urged the company to “reconsider its approach” and resolve the dispute.

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The letter is critical of Kellogg’s plan to introduce a part-time, casual workforce in which workers at the Memphis facility eventually earn at least $12,500 less per year (not including overtime) and receive far fewer benefits than current workers, which “will adversely impact the community’s middle class.”

FULL story at link.