1,400 striking workers of an American company are fired

According to IRNA from the Guardian newspaper; The International Union of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Mill Workers said the vast majority of its members had rejected the company’s five-year offer to increase wages by 3% and did not consider the wage increase sufficient.

The decision to run the club came after months of hardship between the company and the union.

Workers are calling for more wages, citing more than 80 hours a week and efforts to keep the plant afloat during the coronavirus epidemic.

The strike is set to continue on October 5 in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

Klag, which used to employ full-time and part-time workers to keep the plant afloat, has announced that it has decided to start hiring new workers instead of strikers.

Todd Wachon, a professor of labor relations at Rutgers University, said he was not sure the company would be able to hire enough workers instead of striking workers in the current economic climate.

Nearly 600 food industry workers in Kansas and 1,000 workers at Nabisco facilities across the United States have gone on strike this year (2021), amid severe economic turmoil and recession and inflation. More than 10,000 workers of Deir Company, after a month of strike and rejection of 2 offers of this company, managed to receive a 10% increase in wages and benefits.

Founded in 1894 in Michigan, the Klag Company produces a variety of ready-to-eat cereals in the United States.