22 May “The Hatchery Partners with GREEDY Corporate Exploiters!”
Following a morning protest outside the Mondelēz International Annual Meeting last Wednesday, BCTGM and Nabisco 600 supporters headed to the Hatchery Chicago – a food business incubator in East Garfield Park – to demonstrate against their new partnership with the company.
The following is an excerpt from Block Club Chicago – read the full article here.
EAST GARFIELD PARK — Employees and retired workers of the Nabisco bakery staged a protest at the Hatchery Chicago in response to the food business incubator’s new partnership with global snacking giant Mondelēz International.
Protesters say that by accepting investment from Mondelēz, which acquired Nabisco in 2000, the Hatchery is condoning labor practices that the protesters describe as exploitative.
“We want to let the Hatchery know that … they’re partnering with a corporation that’s trying to destroy pensions, trying to destroy jobs and trying to destroy the living wages of members of our union and people in the US and in Mexico,” said Elce Redmond, a representative of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union that helped to organize last week’s protest…