潜水简报:
- After muchdiscussion在一般磨坊之间，新奥尔巴尼市，哦，和Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union Local 33G, the city'sPillsbury plantwill now officially close in mid-2016.
- 虽然这笔交易将脱掉400多名工人，大多数（217-10）投票赞成compensation packageinvolved, which offers $1-per-hour pay bump, $1,000 immediate bonus, and extra bonuses for meeting certain quotas and staying on with the plant until it closes.
- 这座城市提供了一般磨坊700万美元incentive packageto convince the company to keep the plant open, but it wasn't enough to turn the heads of company officials, who will reportedly save每年3100万美元in shuttering the plant.
潜入洞察力：
这不是普通工厂最近的历史的第一个layoffs, and it may not be the last. In September, the next day following a report of disappointing earnings, the company announced theclosing of two plants: one Yoplait facility and another that manufactured different General Mills cereal brands. Soon after, the company announced it would cut another700 to 800unspecified jobs as well. And now, General Mills faces a lawsuit from 14 workers who claimage discrimination遵循2012年裁员作为公司“项目加油”的一部分。
The cause? Bleeding谷物销售和the rise of不含麸质foods are likely contributors.
