Union, Mondelez reach tentative agreement amid strike

HENRICO, Va. (AP) — A tentative declaration statement reached betwixt snack institution Mondelez and striking national workers could extremity a walkout that began past month.

The institution and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union issued statements Wednesday announcing a tentative deal. Still, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports neither would sermon the terms.

Anthony Shelton, the union's planetary president, says section officers volition contiguous the statement to workers successful the coming days, and they'll ballot connected it.

Mondelez and the national person been negotiating a caller four-year declaration since the aged 1 expired astatine the extremity of May.

It covers national employees astatine six sites, including a works successful Henrico, Virginia, making foods similar Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, and Chips Ahoy! cookies.

According to KATU, chaos has ensued astatine the Nabisco works successful Portland, Oregon, wherever protestors person blocked trucks caravanning successful replacement workers.

The quality outlet reported that respective fights betwixt information guards and demonstrators besides occurred Wednesday.

The Associated Press reported that much than 1,000 hourly employees successful Oregon, Virginia, and Chicago are striking arsenic they question a just declaration and resolutions successful disputes implicit wages, pensions, and overtime pay.