“Just a year ago, we were called heroes because we worked through the pandemic, seven days a week, 16 hours a day,” said union leader Trevor Bidelman, whose family has worked for Kellogg’s for four generations. “Now we are apparently not heroes anymore.”
Factory workers often work seven days a week and are not allowed to take time off. “We don’t have a weekend, sometimes we work 100 to 130 days in a row,” says Bidelman. “The machines here run for 28 days and then are shut down for three days to be cleaned. So they treat us worse than their machines.”