That Odd Greyhound Lady

There is currently a strike at Frito-Lay. in Topeka. These workers are striking because:

They were being forced to work 84 hour weeks. The company's best offer so far is a 60 hour cap. This is shit we fought for a century ago, people.

Their generous offer also includes a whole 4 percent wage increase...over the next 2 years. I'm not sure what COL is in Topeka, but... Well, it's better than the entire 77 cents they've apparently gotten in the last decade.

There's also a report that a worker literally collapsed and dropped dead on the line and the foreman's response was to make them move the body out of the way and put in a replacement. (However, this is unconfirmed and, of course, the company denies it).

There have been multiple OSHA violations at this plant over the last few years, including a forklift accident that's under investigation.

They've now been striking since July 5 but, of course, it only hit the national media yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/frito-lay-strike-forced-overtime/

So, why am I signal boosting this?

Because Frito-Lay is refusing to budge. They are attempting to make the excuse that union leadership agreed to the 60 hour work week and crappy pay cut...when union leadership only agreed to put it to a vote.

And this means that we need to put the thumbscrews on them. Remember, this is about 19th century style working conditions.

So, I'm calling on my followers to boycott Frito Lay's until the strike is involved.

Frito-Lay owns:

Lay's

Doritos (Sorry. I really am. I KNOW there's no good alternative to Doritos, although Zapp's are good if you can find them).

Fritos

Tostitos

Cheetos

Ruffles

Sun Chips

Baken-ets

Chester's

Cracker Jack

Islen plantain chips

Funyuns

Grandma's (the cookies)

Matador Meat Snacks

Maui style potato chips

Miss Vickie's

Munchies

Munchos

Rolled Gold

Sabritones

Santitas

Simply

Smartfood

Stacys

The Walking Taco

NatuChips

PopCorners (this one wasn't on their website, but was bought by Pepsi's in 2019 with the intent of adding it. So best avoided just in case). Yes, this really is more than half of the snack aisle. Suggested alternatives:

Kettle Brand Chips

Zapp's (If you can find them. My supermarket had them once and not since, so I'm guessing the culinary cowards in this neighborhood were afraid of "Voodoo" flavored chips).

Pringles

On the Border for salsa.

Wise Cheez Doodles

Bugles

Utz

Store own brand alternatives, if your store has ones that are any good.

Cheez-its

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“Nice Does Not Mean Good”

1) fast food restaurants cannot advertise to children anymore, so that means no more bright colors and child friendly mascots

2) McDonalds and the like have been loosing ground to “fresh fast food” chains like Chipotle for the better part of two decades, and this style is meant to emulate that more clean, “mature” style.

3) Resale on property. See, fast food isn’t doing as well as it did in the 90s-early 2000s, and where it used to be fairly rare to have a fast food place close, now a days you might have a location close, and good luck selling the old, branded building to a completely different business. You know those closed Pizza Huts that just sorta sit there forever, very clearly having been a Pizza Hut? Well as it turns out, most businesses don’t want to buy a building that is recognizably from a different brand. You’d basically have to tear down the building and start over, a costly decision when there are plenty of plain looking spaces that you can buy/rent and put a lot less cost into renovations. So for a fast food chain now, it’s far better to have a plain “this could be any sort of counter service place, just change the signs!” In case you have to close that location and sell the building.

This article from Business Insider goes into more detail. The highlights include: 

Ten companies control more than 50 of the biggest names in the chain restaurant business, from Panera to Burger King.

As it becomes more expensive to run a restaurant, more chains are consolidating under mega-companies.

And they produced this helpful graphic:

You’ll notice that certain ‘hipster’ coffee brands which cultivate a “small business” vibe to compete with Starbucks, like Peets and Stumptown, are now owned by JAB Holding Company, also the owners of Keurig coffee, Panera Bread, and Dr. Pepper-Snapple Group. JAB also used slave labor during the Nazi regime and members of the German Reismann family, the majority shareholders, were Nazi supporters at the time. That said many of the current shareholders, still from the original German Reismann family, are descendent from a Jewish Holocaust survivor via their that survivor’s daughter, baptized and raised as Catholic, and they set up a foundation to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial after they revealed this information during a time of controversy about their (previous) ties to Nazis. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company]) 

Additionally, past or current collaboration with Nazis, and other far-right architects of genocide, by old multinational corporations, especially European and American ones, are quite common. Starbucks, for example, faced protest this past Mayday for their role in financing the Tigray Genocide by the Ethiopian and Eritrean militaries. https://itsgoingdown.org/may-day-2021/]

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.