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Hundreds of union employees at three U.S. Nabisco bakeries that make Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies and Ritz Crackers have gone on strike to protest proposed changes amid contract negotiations with parent company Mondelez International, Inc.

Approximately 200 workers at a factory in Portland, Oregon, have been on strike for two weeks and were joined on Monday by about 400 employees at Nabisco's bakery in Richmond, Virginia. On Thursday, workers at Nabisco's bakery in Chicago also walked off the job to go on strike.

Employees at a sales distribution center in Aurora, Colorado, also joined the strike on Aug. 12. All of the workers on strike are members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union, which announced the Chicago strike on Thursday.

"This fight is about maintaining what we already have," Mike Burlingham, vice president of BCTGM Local 364 in Portland, told TODAY Food. "During the pandemic, we all were putting in a lot of hours, demand was higher, people were at home, and the snack food industry did phenomenally well.

"Mondelez made record profits and they want to thank us by closing two of the U.S. bakeries (last month) and telling the rest of us we have to take concessions, what kind of thanks is that? We make them a lot of money. It's very disheartening. How is that supposed to make us feel?"

The union is in the midst of negotiating a new four-year contract with Mondelez after the previous one expired in May.

If you also didn’t hear, Danny DeVito got unverified briefly by Twitter for voicing solidarity with the union. Dan Rather got involved. It’s messy. Don’t cross the line if you can. 

they straight up have people living in cardboard homes. they made them all as cheap as possible out of the worst materials for the area and are in absolutely no way energy efficient.

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@brassmama exactly.

^^ Like. Its literally right there in the middle of the flag.

And by contrast, this is what the pan flag colours mean:

So literally its just......

bi colours = "same gender, opposite gender, and other genders"

pan colours = "men, women, and nb people."

Those two things are...... not all that different to each other.

The purple has always, literally since the flag was created, meant "more genders."

And bisexuality included "more genders" in the definition before the bi flag was created, too. Thats why they included the purple bar in the first place, because it was reflective of bisexual people's attraction to and relationship with gender.

It means to reject whiteness as a concept and identity and actively doing things to help dismantle white supremacy. It means using your privilege to protect poc no matter what. It means holding white people around you accountable for their racism, even for small acts of racism like micro aggressions. It means putting time and energy into combating your unconscious bias and the unconscious bias of those around you. It means giving us tangible support, whether it be money or your time and energy. You have to put your whole self into helping us fight against white supremacy and you have to do it loudly and enthusiastically no matter the cost.

These are all things I took issue with and brought to my employer for further discussion before signing the contract. Most of my coworkers signed without reading, treating it like an internet terms of service contract.

Companies BANK on the fact you’re not going to read it. Then they slip in shit like ‘you can’t talk about your wages’ because they want you to keep quiet, so thy can pay that guy six bucks, and pay the guy over there fifteen and pay you eight. They want you to accept it all blindly. PLEASE DON’T STAY BLIND.

Yes, I’ve lost out on jobs because I wanted to read it and they didn’t want me to. Or they wanted m to resign and I said no to to the things they added that I pointed out were unfair and borderline illegal. 

Before you start any job. A company should not only list everything they expect of you, but it should also list what you expect of them in a contract.

Agreed vacation time, sick days, base pay, benefits, working hours.

All of that should be up front and available for you to read.

NEVER WORK FOR A COMPANY THAT WONT GIVE YOU A EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT.

IF YOU DONT HAVE A DOCUMENT THAT CONFIRMS YOUR PAY AT MINIMUM, THEN YOU ARE SETTING YOURSELF UP TO BE SCREWED.

ALSO ASK FOR COPIES OF ANYTHING YOU AGREED TO SIGN AND KEEP THAT SHIT.

Last month one of my supervisors wanted me to do something and I told him it wasn’t my job and I wasn’t going to do it, and he told me that it was in my contract that I had to. If I hadn’t read my contract when I signed it then I might have believed him, but I always read employment contracts and while I don’t recall every detail in them, I wouldn’t have signed one that had that in it.

For example, I’ve known people to say Kleenex when they meant tissue. I’ve heard people use Hoover instead of vacuum.

And it gets to a point with certain things that some people can’t distinguish the difference.

Weedwhacker is a brand. How many people know the real term is “string trimmer”? Jell-O is a brand. And it’s so pervasive that people call literally any gelatin dessert “jello” even if it’s not made by Jell-O. Tupperware! That’s a brand!

The one thing that constantly messes with my head, though:

DUMPSTER IS A BRAND.