Striking workers request BOYCOTT of FRITO-LAY and PEPSI-CO products.

[pnwmom]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbmwy/im-a-frito-lay-factory-worker-i-work-12-hour-days-7-days-a-week?fbclid=IwAR0_3hUICViM_yjMcR2-fdt82hm7YCsyeBcmx-Jkmr0MHKAw4c1QWn0wIlU

Many of the 850 workers at the facility say they work 84 hours a week with no days off. Workers are nominally supposed to work eight-hour shifts, but because of shortages, workers are often forced to add on an extra four hours before or after their shifts. Workers call these extended shifts "suicides," because they say the schedule kills you over time. Some workers haven't had a single day off in five months, including Saturdays and Sundays.

The grassy lawn outside the factory has transformed into a picket line, drawing crowds of hundreds of workers and union members from around Kansas. The struggle at Frito-Lay is a reminder that the eight hour workday–"eight hours for work, eight hours for rest and eight hours for what you will"—that workers won in bloody labor battles of the late 19th century can no longer be taken for granted.

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We would rather nobody buy any Frito-Lay products, Fritos, Doritos, Tostitos, Funyuns, Cheetos, all those, while we're on strike. We make all of those in Topeka, Kansas. We also would rather nobody buys PepsiCo products while we're on the line. PepsiCo is the owner of Frito-Lay.

We're hoping we can get these people back to work with a decent wage and some kind of alternative to all this forced overtime. Honestly, I don't know how what they're doing is legal.

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[SheltieLover]

1. OMG! Horrifying!

Ty for sharing!

[Ritabert]

2. Easy boycott since I don't eat that stuff anyway

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[pnwmom]

3. In the summer a lot of other people do. n/t

[Rural_Progressive]

16. Doesn't matter what time of year it is

I don't.

Stopped when I discovered a direct correlation between eating that ultra processed material (not really food) and my joint pain going up significantly.

Eat a bag of those chips, a day or two later I ache all over. Stop eating it and a couple of days later the inflammation has cleared up.

Easy medicine, just don't eat the cr*p.

[bamagal62]

4. Easy for me!

Consider it done.

[luvs2sing]

5. Thanks for the heads up.

I do enjoy Lays chips and Fritos occasionally. I’ve also noticed the quality of both has taken a sharp nosedive over the past year.

[we can do it]

6. I'm in.

[pwb]

7. They pay two people 12 hours instead of 3 people 8 hours? Why?

Health insurance and benefits. Benefits are tax deductible for companies but since they pay no taxes anyway they take it back as profits. National health insurance could stop companies from acting like such dicks.

[BigmanPigman]

18. Very true!

[Shrike47]

8. I'm in, and I buy some of their products. Or did, until today.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Won't be hard for me. Very rarely touch those products.

[pnwmom]

10. Then your lack of action won't mean much. But some people, hopefully, WILL boycott. n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. I fucking love Cheetos and I'm happy to boycott.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

12. I won't be buying my regular snacks - I'm boycotting Pepsico. nt

[bluecollar2]

13. Done...n/t

[Cozmo]

14. 'm down, put me down!

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. Solidarity!

[Traildogbob]

17. I do not

Eat or drink any of those things. Personal choice, zero problem with those that do. I wish there was a way to support those that work there. Should not be allowed in this country. Or any for that matter.
For those that voted for trump, and republicans, take your run the country like a business, trump was a great business man up your asses.
GQP are trying to run American a like a business. Only top 1-2 percent take majority of the money, that the people make, pay the people near nothing, deny healthcare, time off, work extra hours to stay alive, fuck your family and children, do not allow any regulations for safety of the people, put zero money back into the company, never upgrade infrastructure even if the machines are falling apart and could kill the people, not let the people have a voice at all about their concerns, if they die, just put in another desperate for any job. Play Fox 24/7 forced into the workers brains, Election Day, or month, tough shit, no time off with pay. I can go on.
How long will that company, or country survive of be profitable for other than top percent? What kind of health or life do those people exist in? How good a job do they do with that atmosphere.
Corporate America, America has become a shitty run corporation, with zero hope of the dream, desperate workers, some going off the deep end with heavy armory, mentally pushed and ready to take out others and themselves out of their misery.
These folks at Pepsi Co and Fredo Lay are experiencing how GQP want America to be governed.
Good luck workers, I will continue to not use that stuff.

[fishwax]

19. Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 218: We've Got Your Back

[paleotn]

20. Seems their OSHA record is spotty as well. Imagine that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/frito-lay-strike-forced-overtime/

[Javaman]

21. Not funyuns!!!!

Meh, I don’t eat any of that crap anyway lol

[Wild blueberry]

22. Done

[Skittles]

23. I'm in

will keep track of their progress

[vercetti2021]

24. I'm with them

I worked for Pepsi for years and they overworked our asses to death because we were constantly short handed since no one wanted to stay.

[NNadir]

25. I wish I could help, but I don't use any of those products, except, on rare occasions, Doritos.

I'll boycott them but it probably won't count for much.

I think my wife bought Tostitos once or twice, and I'll tell her to avoid it if she thinks of it again.

[Sienna86]

26. I'm in too.

Read about it this morning. Terrible work conditions. Interesting, the guy interviewed for the article said the factory used to be a great place to work. Something obviously changed at corporate level.

[SergeStorms]

27. Message received.

Frito-Lay products shall not enter my body through any orifice.

I don't know how they get away with this. There are laws that should prevent this, but I guess huge political donations make some of those laws extremely pliable.

PepsiCo. and Frito-Lay are banned from this household.