Opinion | The second American snack-food strike in three months has a lot to teach us about the shifting battle lines in labor paulconstant writes.
" podcast, Kansas State Representative Jason Probst said the strike showed workers"have had their fill. They're tired of giving up their lives for substandard wages and sacrificing their quality of life so that somebody else can make outsized profits."
Citing increased"consumer consciousness" in support of the Frito-Lay workers and a favorable job market that is finally driving up wages for workers, Probst predicted that the Topeka strike would not be the last worker action to grab headlines. "Employees have probably more strength than they've had in a number of years," Probst explained, and more employees were likely to flex their muscles in the months to come.It only took a few weeks for Probst's predictions to come true. Over a thousand workers in all four Nabisco bakeries and distribution centers in America — from Portland, Oregon all the way to Richmond, Virginia —.
"Anything after eight hours, we feel, should be overtime," Willie Williams, a worker in the Chicago Nabisco plant,
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