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Marathon shifts contribute to the exploitation at Frito-Lay. “But when you tell people that you work at this place, they just call you ‘slave.’” “It used to be a luxury to work here,” Bruni Torez told More Perfect Union. Today, Hodgson is on the picket line, expressing his dismay at the treatment he and his co-workers at the factory are forced to endure. He remembers being told he would be lucky to work there someday. Zach Hodgson says he toured the factory on a fifth grade field trip. The pay and working conditions at Frito-Lay have deteriorated significantly in recent decades. “We can’t survive like this,” said Kelly Hubert, who has worked at the factory for 36 years. The company generated $18 billion in revenue last year, but it does not share that wealth with the workers who manufacture, package, and ship the snacks: employees at the Topeka plant have received raises of just 20 to 40 cents per hour over the last decade. The factory workers picketing across the street from the massive facility cited an unsafe and exploitative work environment, stagnant wages, and being forced to work brutally long hours-sometimes up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week.įrito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, produces over two dozen brands of the world’s most popular snack foods including leading chip brands such as Lays, Cheetos, Doritos, Ruffles, and Rold Gold pretzels.
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It is the first strike at the factory since it opened fifty years ago. At midnight on July 5th, 600 workers at Frito-Lay in Topeka, Kansas went on strike.