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Bernie Sanders to Rally With Striking Kellogg Workers Friday

Bernie Sanders to Rally With Striking Kellogg Workers Friday

Senator Bernie Sanders plans to rally with striking Kellogg Co. workers in Michigan Friday, highlighting an issue that also has drawn the attention of President Joe Biden. 

Sanders, a former Democratic presidential candidate, heads to Battle Creek after Kellogg said last month it was planning to hire replacement workers “where appropriate.” The labor impasse has persisted since early October. 

“Kellogg’s workers made the company billions during a pandemic by working 12-hour shifts, some for more than 100 days in a row,” Sanders said in a tweet Tuesday. The company is “now choosing corporate greed over the workers they once called ‘heroes’.”

Last week, Biden said he was “troubled” by Kellogg’s plan to replace the striking workers and urged the two sides to reach an agreement.

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