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'No Contracts, No Snacks': Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US

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Various Nabisco products are on display on a supermarket shelf. (Photo: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 'No Contracts, No Snacks': Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US "If Nabisco can rake in billions of dollars in corporate profits, they can afford to treat their workers with dignity and respect." Brett Wilkins , August 20, 2021 Employees at Nabisco's flagship plant in Chicago walked off the job Thursday, joining workers at three of the leading snack maker's other U.S. plants who are demanding better working conditions, an end to foreign outsourcing, and the withdrawal of a company plan that would scrap the company's current guaranteed overtime pay system. "They don't care about frontline workers. They only care about the almighty dollar. We're tired of getting stepped on and treated like trash. We've had enough." —Rusty Lewis, Nabisco worker The strike began August 10 when around 200 members of the Bake