Behind the Nabisco Strike
Workers at US food company Nabisco are on strike in four states over impossible schedules, two-tier healthcare and attacks on pay – their aim is clear: to make the corporate giant “treat us like human beings.”
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Alex Press is a staff writer at Jacobin. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Vox, the Nation, and n+1, among other places.
Workers at US food company Nabisco are on strike in four states over impossible schedules, two-tier healthcare and attacks on pay – their aim is clear: to make the corporate giant “treat us like human beings.”
This week, a 1,400-worker strike in Hunts Point, New York won an immediate raise with no concessions. It’s a sign that the US labour movement is beginning to reclaim its militant roots.