Opinion | Strikes, mass quitting, and rage: We talked to workers who were fed up with terrible conditions and are fighting back. By EoinHiggins_
Mandatory overtime, no days off, and poor working conditions — workers at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas went on strike this month to demand an end to mistreatment. The strike, which garnered national attention, is the latest example of how resentment over poor workplace conditions and unreasonable demands from employers is exploding around the country.
Months earlier, in May, Dollar General employees in a store in Eliot, Maine walked off the job and achieved a similar notoriety for a sign they left on the door calling out the parent company for mistreatment and low pay."Closed indefinitely because Dollar General doesn't pay a living wage or treat their employees with respect," read the sign, composed by workers Brendt Erikson and Hannah Barr.
All across America, workers are making their case against decades of low wages, overwork, and poor conditions. That these sporadic uprisings — wildcat and union-sanctioned alike — against management are coming on the heels of the pandemic is not a mistake. The pandemic exposed the inadequacies of the US economy and showed the general public that they could get a better deal if the people in power wanted to give them one.
The plant has multiple safety violations, photos from inside the facility leaked to me show, presenting workers with a dangerously unsafe environment. Fans with damaged, open wires hanging from them are plugged in; boxes of product block egress; frequent fires from the kitchen reportedly regularly fill the plant with smoke.
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