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Despite union leadership not recommending the latest contract offer from Frito-Lay, union members on strike voted Friday to approve the proposal. That vote to ratify the contract — an offer made after three straight days of negotiations between Frito-Lay and the union representing workers at its Topeka plant — brings a nearly three-week-long labor strike outside the plant to an end. Members of Local 218 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union voted Friday to approve an offer that gives all union members a 4% pay raise over two years and guarantees worker...

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 human cost of Doritos: Claims of 84-hour work weeks and stagnant wages at Frito-Lay factory where workers are on strike Alex Woodward © AP Ron Sadler, a 32-year employee at Frito-Lay’s facility in Topeka, Kansas, joins a union strike. - AP As of midnight on 5 July, hundreds of employees at one of the nation’s largest snack manufacturers went on strike, demanding better workplace protections and an end to forced overtime that has pushed Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas to the brink. For nearly two weeks, roughly 600 workers at the Frito-Lay plant have been on strik...

The human cost of Doritos: Claims of 84-hour work weeks and stagnant wages at Frito-Lay factory where workers are on strike Alex Woodward © AP Ron Sadler, a 32-year employee at Frito-Lay’s facility in Topeka, Kansas, joins a union strike. - AP As of midnight on 5 July, hundreds of employees at one of the nation’s largest snack manufacturers went on strike, demanding better workplace protections and an end to forced overtime that has pushed Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas to the brink. For nearly two weeks, roughly 600 workers at the Frito-Lay plant have been on strik...

600 Topeka, Kansas Frito-Lay workers strike after rejecting union-negotiated deal Nearly 600 Topeka, Kansas Frito-Lay workers have walked out on strike after overwhelmingly voting down the latest contract proposal negotiated by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union (BCTGM) and PepsiCo, Frito-Lay’s parent company. Workers voted on Saturday 353 to 30 to authorize strike. Aerial view of Frito Lay production facility in Topeka, Kansas (Source: potatopro.com) Workers at the nearly 600,000-square-foot Frito-Lay facility, which sits on 188 acres of lan...