No Contract, No Snacks! Nabisco Workers on Strike Get International Solidarity
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On today’s episode we say No Contract, No Snacks! Mondelez Nabisco workers across the country are on strike. On August 10th union members walked off the company’s cookie plant in Portland Oregon demanding fair treatment and a fair contract. Since then over 1,000 other Nabisco workers are on strike nationwide. Jesus Martinez, the President of BCTGM Local 364 and Corey Waddy, a Packing Technician at Mondelēz/ Nabisco join us today to discuss their demands and their ongoing and growing movement.
The end of extended unemployment assistance this week marks the largest cutoff of unemployment benefits in history, and spells disaster for the over 7.5 million jobless Americans struggling to pay their bills. Jenna Gerry, Senior Staff Attorney with the National Employment Law Project joins the show to explore what this means for working class people across the country, and why the mainstream media continues to pretend like this isn’t devastating for working people and instead treats this cutoff as some marker of “normal”.