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Strike: COVID Stress Boils Over at Kansas Frito-Lay Plant

Employees at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, KS, recently settled a strike in which labor activists cited unreasonable working conditions, according to Manufacturing.net and other news outlets.

Union officials charged that the plant had implemented forced overtime and 84-hour workweeks.

They also claimed employee requests for additional staff and hazard pay had gone unheeded by Frito-Lay, which took in $4.2 billion in sales last year alone. Management and labor agreed to end the 20-day walkout in late July with a commitment by Frito-Lay to hike wages and guarantee ...

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