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Kellogg Cereal Workers Approve Agreement, Ending Standoff

  • Employees to receive cost-of-living raises, health benefits
  • Deal comes amid a reinvigorated U.S. organized labor movement
Demonstrators during a union workers strike against Kellog Co. in Battle Creek, on Dec. 17.

Demonstrators during a union workers strike against Kellog Co. in Battle Creek, on Dec. 17.

Photographer: Elaine Cromie/Bloomberg
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The union representing about 1,400 of Kellogg Co.’s cereal-plant workers voted to ratify the agreement reached with the company last week, ending a strike that began Oct. 5. 

The vote was confirmed by Dan Osborn, president of the union’s Omaha branch.