Portland Nabisco Workers Lead Strike That Has Now Spread Nationwide

More than 200 workers at Northeast Portland’s Nabisco bakery — which produces major cookie and cracker brands like Oreo, Chips Ahoy!, and Premium Saltine crackers — are on strike over a new contract. Since the group first walked out on August 10, the work stoppage has spread to Nabisco facilities in Richmond, Virginia (at another production bakery) and Aurora, Colorado (at a distribution hub) as others join the fight against parent company Mondelez International. In Portland, members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union Local 364 are also picketing outside the facility — holding up signs reading “Don’t let this cookie crumble! Support the unions!”

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