BCTGM Local 300 stewards Sabrina Pope (left) and Barbara Cimbalista (right) have been employees at the Nabisco factory on 73rd and Kedzie for decades. They continue to fight Mondelez’s decision to lay off six hundred workers from the factory.
“I expect that all six hundred jobs stay here, I expect that we get a raise, and I expect a contract renewal,” says Pope. “We made this bakery. It was made by us and those before us, and we’re not giving up.”
Read this excellent article by South Side Weekly for an insiders view on what it is like to be one of the 600 Nabisco workers at the Mondelez plant in Chicago that is exporting jobs to Mexico.