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That can include uniforms, t-shirts, and warm-up gear! See if your group qualifies nowBy Don McIntosh, associate editor Chicago bakery worker Anthony Jackson was laid off from Nabisco March 23. On June 16 and 17, he visited Portland as part of a multi-city tour to publicize his union’s boycott of Mexican-made Oreos. Jackson is one of several hundred Chicago workers who were disposed of when Nabisco, a highly profitable and iconic American corporation, decided to make even more money by shifting more production to Mexico.Persian Cats For Sale In Sacramento Ca The story began in May 2015 when Nabisco parent company Mondelēz told leaders of Chicago-based Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 300 that it would close nine of 16 production lines in Chicago — and spend $130 million to open four new ones at its plant in Salinas, Mexico — if union workers in Chicago didn’t offer up $46 million a year in concessions. Used Washer And Dryer For Sale Savannah

The union refused to consider that ultimatum, saying it would amount to a $29,000 cut in compensation per worker. Mondelēz moved ahead with the new production lines in Salinas, and laid off 251 of its Chicago production workers on March 23. Jackson was in that first wave. Another 43 were laid off May 27. “It is an older facility,” Jackson said, “but if you go by the numbers, it wasn’t like we were bottom of the class as far as the plants go. Black Lab Puppies For Sale In Greensboro NcThis is being done strictly for corporate greed.” A disabled U.S. Navy veteran supporting three daughters, Jackson says it won’t be easy for him find a job with similar pay and benefits. Jackson, 39, was making up to $26.08 an hour plus benefits under the union contract, after four-and-a-half years working at Nabisco’s flagship industrial bakery. Layoffs targeted the least senior workers, so all the workers who remain have been at the Chicago Nabisco plant more than nine years.

Jackson says on their final day, he and his laid-off co-workers were escorted out of the plant one-by-one by security guards. “I guess you could say it was like a funeral procession,” he said. “Even though we saw this day [coming] it was another thing when you actually are in the moment.” Adding insult to injury, Jackson said the Monday after his layoff, Nabisco required the remaining employees to work overtime. BCTGM has dubbed the laid-off workers the “Nabisco/Mondelēz 600,” but so far, just 294 Chicago Nabisco workers have been laid off — not 600, as the company had announced. Since the second wave of workers was shown the door May 27, there’s been no third layoff notification and no talk of a third wave. BCTGM leaders don’t know why, but speculate it may have to do with an unexpected wave of retirements, adverse publicity, and even a failure to plan. Meanwhile, the BCTGM union contract covering 2,000 Nabisco workers in five states expired Feb. 29, and the two sides haven’t reached a new agreement.

For the union, bargaining stalled over Mondelēz’ proposal to withdraw from the union pension plan and instead contribute the same amount to a 401(k)-style defined contribution plan; and to replace the current fully-paid healthcare plan with a plan that requires workers to pay 10 percent of costs. Mondelēz presented the union what it called its “Revised Last, Best and Final Offer” on April 8. Nabisco may have thought Americans wouldn’t care about one more company shifting production overseas, but the layoffs became an issue in the presidential campaign. Presidential candidate Donald Trump said he’d never eat another Oreo. Hillary Clinton visited the union office across the street from the Chicago Nabisco plant. And Bernie Sanders sent a surrogate, former CWA union president Larry Cohen, to deliver a message of solidarity. Now BCTGM is focusing on publicizing its boycott of Mexican-made Oreos and other Nabisco products. Jackson and other laid-off workers have visited over a dozen cities to get the word out.  

In Portland, Jackson and BCTGM international organizer Nate Zeff joined BCTGM Local 364 members (and supporters from UFCW and AFL-CIO) in a June 16 picket outside the Nabisco plant on North Columbia Boulevard. And on June 17, they addressed a meeting of the Oregon AFL-CIO executive board. “Even though this fight is centered around Mondelēz, it’s actually bigger than Mondelēz,” Jackson says. “We have to fight this fight against Mondelēz and all the other corporations that are running to Mexico. We must make this fight so hard for Mondelēz that the rest of the companies will see that and say it’s not worth it.”Oreo cookies should be banned from sale to children in California, according to a lawsuit filed by a San Francisco attorney who claims that trans fat -- the stuff that makes the chocolate cookies crisp and their filling creamy -- is so dangerous children shouldn't eat it. Stephen Joseph, who filed the suit against Nabisco last week in Marin County Superior Court, is a public interest lawyer who last battled the city to remove graffiti from traffic signs.

He took up the trans fat battle after reading about the dangerous artificial fat in several stories published by The Chronicle that showed how trans fat is hidden in many of the popular snack foods Americans eat. Joseph also believes his father's death from heart disease was caused in part by a lifelong diet of margarine and other foods made from trans fat. The suit, the first of its kind in the country, asks for an injunction ordering Kraft Foods to desist from selling Nabisco Oreo Cookies to children in California, because the cookies are made with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, also called trans fat. Partially hydrogenated oil is in about 40 percent of the food on grocery store shelves, including most cookies, crackers and microwave popcorn, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But doctors and government researchers believe it is linked to several debilitating diseases and might be one of the worst ingredients in the American diet -- in part because we eat so much of it without knowing.

The Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, last summer confirmed that trans fat is directly associated with heart disease and increases in LDL cholesterol, the kind that can clog arteries. Because of that, the institute report said there is no safe amount of trans fat in the diet. Prompted by those findings, and after being petitioned by health advocates, the Food and Drug Administration decided to force food manufacturers to list trans fat among the other fats and nutrients printed on the side of food packages. But the rule has been challenged by food manufacturers. A final version is pending. As it stands, U.S. consumers have no idea how much trans fat is in food because it isn't required on nutrition labels. Even products marked "low in cholesterol" or "low in saturated fat" might have high levels of trans fat. Providing information about trans fat on labels could prevent 7,600 to 17,100 cases of coronary heart disease and 2,500 to 5,600 deaths every year -- not only because people would be able to choose healthier foods but because manufacturers could choose to reduce trans fat amounts rather than list high levels on nutrition panels, the FDA has estimated.

The Oreo lawsuit differs from consumer lawsuits against tobacco, and more recently, fast-food giant McDonald's, Joseph said. "Tobacco is well known as an unsafe product. Trans fat is not the same thing at all. Very few people know about it," he said. Joseph said his suit is about the hidden nature of trans fat and the marketing to children. That's what makes it different from a class-action suit filed earlier this year against McDonald's on behalf of an obese New York man. (That suit was thrown out in February.) Joseph's suit does not focus on obesity or on the choices adults make when they eat, he said. Legally, Joseph is relying on a provision in California law that says companies aren't liable for a commonly used but unhealthy product if it is well-known in the community that the product is unsafe. "But this product, trans fat, is not commonly known to be unsafe," he said. "That's why trans fat is a far stronger case than tobacco or McDonald's because people know those are dangerous."

In his suit, Joseph cites the Hanover, N.J., company's Nabiscoworld Web site, with its games for children. In particular, he mentions a school-based program called the Oreo On-line Project, which involves stacking Oreos as high as possible without toppling the tower. In 2002, more than 326 schools and classes around the country participated, according to the Oreo Web site. "This is a FUN way to teach your students math, measurement, working as a team and more," the Web site says. Nabisco officials, who Joseph said will likely be served with the suit this week, weren't immediately available for comment. They will have 30 days from the May 5 filing date to respond. State Sen. Debra Bowen, a leader in state nutrition-reform legislation, called Joseph's choice of the California product liability law to go after food makers who use trans fat a unique approach. "Anything that brings people's attention to how dangerous and unhealthy trans fat can be is probably a good idea, because most people who go to the grocery store and see a bag of cookies or chips pitched as 'low fat' probably assume fat is fat," she said.