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Strikers on the picket line at the Frito-Lay Topeka site during the third week of their strike AROUND 600 Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike for over three weeks, since Monday 5th July, against low pay and forced overtime and 84-hour working weeks. The strike was said to have started after an employee collapsed and died on the factory floor and instead of stopping the line, co-workers reportedly had to help remove the body so another person could step in. Members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) Local 218 voted 353 to 30 to approve a strike. ....
Former Topeka Frito-Lay worker speaks out on issues behind strike: “Some employees went months without a day off” Shortly after midnight on Monday, nearly 600 workers at Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of food and beverage giant PepsiCo, walked out at the company’s plant in Topeka, Kansas, the state capital. Workers struck after voting down a contract proposal for the fourth time this year, a deal backed by the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers (BCTGM) union. Workers at Frito-Lay are fighting to put an end to years of stagnating, poverty-level wages, along with brutal mandatory overtime schedules, problems which are faced by ever-broader sections of the working class. ....