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600 Kansas workers are on strike against low pay and an 84-hour working week!

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.

The human cost of Doritos: 84-hour work weeks and stagnant wages at Frito-Lay factory where workers are on strike

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 strike, calling for better pay, stronger workplace protections and an end to unpredictable overtime schedules and staff shortages that workers say have endangered their lives on the job and stretched them too thin despite years of warnings.

The human cost of Doritos: Claims of 84-hour work weeks and stagnant wages at Frito-Lay factory where workers are on strike

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 strike, calling for better pay, stronger workplace protections and an end to unpredictable overtime schedules and staff shortages that workers say have endangered their lives on the job and stretched them too thin despite years of warnings.

The Day - Hundreds of Frito-Lay workers on strike in Topeka, citing forced overtime and 84-hour workweeks

Published July 15. 2021 12:05AM  Taylor Telford, The Washington Post Get the weekly rundown Email Submit Hundreds of striking Frito-Lay workers in Kansas are calling on one of the nation s biggest snack makers to put an end to forced overtime and 84-hour workweeks brought on by a pandemic-era surge in demand. Workers at the Topeka plant have been pushed to the brink as the factory revved up operations during the pandemic according to the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 218. Many of the factory s more than 800 workers are working seven days a week and up to 12 hours per shift, with just eight hours between clocking in and clocking out, according to the union s president Anthony Shelton.

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