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Striking To End Suicide Shifts, Topeka s Frito-Lay Workers Ask People To Drop The Doritos

Frito-Lays workers at the Topeka, Kan., plant one of 30 manufacturing plants the company operates in the U.S. rejected a contract offer from the company earlier this month. They say they want better pay and working conditions. As employees in Topeka, Kansas, enter a new round of negotiations, they are calling for the public to resist the urge to indulge in Doritos and Cheetos until a new deal that includes less forced overtime is reached. Hundreds of Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kan., are in their third week of a strike, citing so-called suicide shifts and poor working conditions at the manufacturing and distribution plant at a time when the company s net revenue growth has exceeded all of its targets.

On the Picket Line

On the Picket Line By Marie Kelly posted on July 21, 2021 Frito-Lay production never slowed production during the pandemic. Mark Benaka, business manager for Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union (BCTGM) Local 218 and a Frito-Lay retiree after 37 years, commented: “I’ve learned that when something’s hitting Americans beneath the belt, the two main items that never suffer are snack foods and alcohol.” (labornotes.org, July 2021) Snacks strike Exhausted by working seven days a week, 600 workers walked out on strike July 5 at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kan. The Bakery Workers  hit the picket line to demand an end to abusive working conditions endured since before the pandemic. 

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