Hundreds of workers at all the Nabisco bakeries in the U.S. are on strike over a proposal to change their work shifts and health care benefits.
Union leaders have also said the proposal by Mondelez includes different health care plans that would keep the status quo for existing employees and be more expensive for new hires, potentially creating a rift between the two types of employees. The new plan would have a deductible, which the existing plan does not have.
"We call that eating our young and that's not something we do," Burlingham said."What's a benefit to one is a benefit to all. If one of my kids comes to work here one day, I don't want to tell him I voted to keep something to benefit me and not him." Guzzinati said the proposed health care plans for new employees is the same"generous plan" that BCTGM approved for their workers at a facility in Naperville, Illinois, that produces Triscuits.
The alternative work schedules would only affect workers on a small number of high-demand production lines and would not affect overtime pay for a majority of workers, according to Guzzinati. She added that the intention is"to encourage the right behaviors, and if you're assigned to shifts, you're working those shifts."
Burlingham believes the proposal leaves the door open for all employees to be switched from 8- to 12-hour shifts."Our goal has been — and continues to be — to bargain in good faith with the BCTGM leadership across our U.S.
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