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Finding an Actual Kellogg's Employee

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3 min

News

Tim looks for real footage of striking Kellogg's workers and plays a local news report about the strike, union grievances, and a striker describing working eight days a week without a day off.

In this bit5 moments
  • Tim questions why Kellogg's is offering such generous benefits—free healthcare, $120k salary—if the company is supposedly acting in bad faith.
  • Tim jokes about what a Kellogg's employee video might look like: Vietnam veterans in wheelchairs bleeding and screaming about Rice Krispie Treats.
  • News segment explains the strike: union voted to walk after five-year contract expired, citing elimination of cost-of-living adjustments and creation of permanent positions without full-time benefits.
  • Strike leader describes working eight days a week for months without a scheduled day off, some employees going an entire year without a day off.
  • Tim mocks the strikers' claim that they want to see their kids, calling them lazy and asking what happens if someone wants cereal.
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