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By Matt Rooney Nabisco has been Fair Lawn's largest employer and taxpayer for decades. Now it's closing time, Save Jerseyans, and 600 employees will be unemployed after many of years of proudly baking Oreo, Lorna Doone and Teddy Grahams cookies for the American people. The town's Democrat Ma
N.J. mayor says he’s boycotting Oreos after Nabisco plant closure leads to 600 lost jobs
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
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The mayor of Fair Lawn is looking for a new favorite cookie to dunk in milk.
During a Facebook Live session last week, one listener told Mayor Kurt Peluso they thought the town should boycott Nabisco, the maker of Oreos, after its parent company, Mondelez International, announced it would be shutting down its 63-year-old Nabisco plant in Fair Lawn and laying off hundreds of workers.
“I’m with you,” Peluso responded. “I‘m not going to be eating any Oreos or anything from Nabisco anytime soon. I think the way in which they handled this was extremely inappropriate and just absolutely disgusting.”