“Importantly, the revised offer once again includes across-the-board wage increases to employees in all job classifications,” the company said. Shelton said.Īs the strike continued on Thursday, both sides appeared to be working toward a resolution.Īndy Sanchez, executive secretary-treasurer of the Kansas State AFL-CIO, said he had heard from striking workers on Thursday that the union had reached a “tentative agreement” with Frito-Lay that was scheduled for a vote by the membership on Friday.įrito-Lay said in a statement on Thursday that it had spent the last three days jointly revisiting the terms of a prior offer and had “aligned on a new offer that will better address employee concerns around guaranteed days off and create additional opportunities for the union to have input into staffing and overtime.” “The union has repeatedly asked the company to hire more workers, and yet despite record profits, Frito-Lay management has refused this request,” Mr. The food and beverage giant, which is home to Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Doritos, said in July that its net revenue in the quarter surged 20.5 percent to $19.2 billion from a year earlier. Frito-Lay is a division of PepsiCo, which recently reported a huge jump in revenue in its drinks and snacks businesses in the second quarter. Workers have called these double or triple shifts “suicide shifts” and have blamed them on understaffing, which they said Frito-Lay could easily address without hurting the company’s bottom line.
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