Kellogg Omaha Plant

[Guest]

I have heard from a few people that work at the Kelloggs plant in town that the company is considering shutting the Omaha plant down.  The talk was Kelloggs was downsizing and labor disputes which they locked a plant in Memphis out over were looming at more plants including Omaha.  If it went down wouldnt bode well for Omaha in the long run since they have been a big industrial employer for Omaha.

[Coyote]

Kellogg's union workers could face lockout

In October, Kellogg’s locked out more than 200 union employees in Memphis, Tenn., for not agreeing to the company’s proposal. Kellogg's wants to cut pay by $6 for new employees, make them all part-time and not pay them benefits.

In Omaha, 500 Kellogg’s workers with the BCTGM Union worry what's happening to their southern colleagues will happen to them in May when the union contract expires.

[jessep28]

This February 10th article in the New York TImes regarding the Memphis lockout provides a more in-depth picture on the situation.

Labor Battle at Kellogg Plant in Memphis Drags On


I think this opening sentence in one of the paragraphs speaks mountains of truth:

As often happens in labor disputes, the two sides have vastly conflicting versions of what is happening.

[Stargazer]

Sounds like they're closing a similar sized plant in Ontario.

[nebugeater]

Need to read the comments by the readers of this KETV story. Reading these there is no middle ground on the side the people posting are on.

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Kellogg's employees brace for the worst and hope for the best; worried the company will lock out union employees like it did at its Memphis plant last year.

Kellogg's union workers could face lockout

A national labor dispute could affect hundreds of jobs at an Omaha plant, and the apparent options are tough for some union workers to swallow.
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On Thursday, workers installed gate locks on the perimeter fence at the 96th and F streets plant.

[Im cdub]

Some people are pretty proud of themselves. Having a degree is nice but frankly there are lots of jobs that require one to limit the pool, but don't really require one to actually do the job. There are lots of jobs that are hard, nasty, and even require a lot of skill that deserve a better wage than they get. Sometimes the suits really do fantastic work and deserve big money but most may as well be equivalent to a laborer, doing what they are assigned in the best manner possible. They both should have a decent wage you can raise a family on.

[ThatGuy]

Need to read the comments by the readers of this KETV story.

Not enough money in the world.

[nebugeater]

Need to read the comments by the readers of this KETV story.

Not enough money in the world.

Well that sure sums up the postion that some of them take.

[Kim_A2O]

Some people are pretty proud of themselves.  Having a degree is nice but frankly there are lots of jobs that require one to limit the pool, but don't really require one to actually do the job.  There are lots of jobs that are hard, nasty, and even require a lot of skill that deserve a better wage than they get.  Sometimes the suits really do fantastic work and deserve big money but most may as well be equivalent to a laborer, doing what they are assigned in the best manner possible.  They both should have a decent wage you can raise a family on.

Well said

[jessep28]

The union rejected the company's recent labor agreement proposal. Kellogg management according to rumors is threatening to close one to two plants.

Kellogg workers reject contract changes

Kellogg Co. said it “must take steps now” to sustain its cereal business after union employees overwhelmingly struck down proposed changes to their labor agreement over the weekend.

Only 21 of 1,289 votes cast last week were in favor of the proposal, said Trevor Bidelman, president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 3G in Battle Creek. The proposed contract would have affected employee health care benefits and wage adjustments for employees at the company’s four U.S. cereal plants — in Battle Creek, Memphis, Tenn., Lancaster, Pa., and Omaha, Neb. — as Kellogg grapples with poor cereal sales.

[Turtle9160]

Similar article from the World Herald, I have heard from some people working there that they could get locked out by corporate at any day now after the union voted this down. Sounds like a mess

[Coyote]

Omaha officials talking to Kellogg in hopes of warding off plant closure that would cost 450 jobs

[Coyote]

Don't know how I missed this last week:

Kellogg, union OK new 5-year contract; officials had feared possible closing of Omaha plant

[Brad]

Good to hear ! Jeff Beals mention on KFAB on Wednesday at the the Omaha plant was the "Second Safest" from the insiders he talked too.

[ita]

Omaha Kellogg's plant workers walk out on strike

Around 500 union employees of the Kellogg's plant in Omaha walked out on strike early Tuesday, joining colleagues at three other Kellogg's facilities across the country in a dispute over wage disparities.

It's the first strike at the Omaha plant since 1972.