Kellogg Cereal-Worker Strike Continues as Trades Union Returns
Kellogg's cereal plant workers demonstrate in front of the plant in Battle Creek, Michigan on Oct. 7.
Photographer: Rey Del Rio/Getty ImagesMembers of the Building and Construction Trades Council union will return to work Tuesday at the Kellogg Co. cereal factory in Omaha, Nebraska, while the broader strike against the company continues.
An estimated 100 third-party ironworkers, carpenters, electricians and other skilled tradespeople will go back to the plant to avoid defaulting on their contracts, Dan Osborn, president of the Omaha local of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, said Monday. Kellogg’s willingness to use other contractors during the strike has endangered the trades union jobs, Osborn said. “They’ll lose their contracts.”