2014 February
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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The NFL PLayers Association today sent a letter to Kellogg CEO John Bryant backing up the locked out workers in Memphis. "The NFLPA is well aware of the impact on workers and their families when an employer locks out its workers," writes DeMaurice Smith, Executive Director of the NFLPA (NFL Players Association). "The NFLPA calls on you to immediately end the Memphis lockout and allow these hard-working men and women to resume their jobs so that...

Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCollum wrote to Kellogg's CEO John Bryant on February 19 asking him to "please honor the legacy of the company by ending this lockout and seeking a mutually agreeable resolution of this dispute that respects the hard work of employees." "The Kellogg plan to convert full-time jobs to a casual or part-time workforce will likely reduce pay and benefits drastically for most workers, which will have a negative impact on families as well...

SOUTH MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) - Standing up for future employees, a labor dispute between hundreds of Kellogg's workers in Memphis drags on into its fourth month. There are two sticking points on their contract and workers say they refuse to back down. Even though, at the low end workers make around $28 an hour, they say it's not about the salaries. It's about the company trying to break a contract, which they say will significantly affect future workers...

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).ย  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 CPCย  to Kellogg Company CEO John Bryant, the Co-Chairs of...

After weeks of discussion and preparation, a community wide social justice organization comprised of a wide cross section of area and national organizations has been formally announced in Memphis. The community coalition known as The Coalition for the Organizational Protection of People and Equal Rights (COPPER) was formally launched at a meeting last week in Memphis.ย  Bishop E. Lynn Brown, a spokesperson for the organization, said that the lockout of workers at the Memphis Kellogg...