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Dr Pepper Snapple Rakes in Profits, Wants to Cut Workers’ Wages
The Dr Pepper Snapple Group, the corporate conglomerate that owns Mott’s, has been trying to cut the pay of workers at the apple juice company in Williamson, N.Y., even as it reported net income of $555 million in 2009. An article by Steve Greenhouse in the New York Times today quotes a Dr Pepper Snapple spokesman defending the company’s race to the bottom.
Chris Barnes, a company spokesman, said Dr Pepper Snapple was seeking a $1.50-an-hour wage cut, a pension freeze and other concessions to bring the plant’s costs in line with “local and industry standards.”
The wage cuts would amount to $3,000 a year and the conglomerate also is demanding an end to pensions for new hires, a reduction in the company’s 401(k) retirement contributions and increased employee costs for health care benefits. The 350 workers who have been on strike since May over the proposed cutbacks know that if Dr Pepper Snapple can get away with slashing salaries and pensions while making a profit, other corporations will be waiting in line to follow suit.
Dr Pepper Snapple is pitting worker against worker, taking ads out in an area paper that compares the wages of Motts workers- with those of nonunion workers.
Divide and conquer has long been a corporate tactic to maintain the upper hand. We encourage the workers in the Rochester, N.Y., area who don’t work at Motts to see the scam for what it is.
Read the full article here.
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Thanks for the information,, Tula. I’m surprised there aren’t any comments under here yet.
This is a stunning case, and one that could whip up a lot of support among Americans if it got the publicity the workers deserve.
The management is predatory, inhumane and regressive.
We’re boycotting their stuff as of today.
Are there any fliers, signs or other materials for getting the word out about this?
This is a product that is vulnerable to consumer boycotts. Let’s get cracking.
“The 350 workers who have been on strike since May over the proposed cutbacks know that if Dr Pepper Snapple can get away with slashing salaries and pensions while making a profit, other corporations will be waiting in line to follow suit.”
It is already too late. Coporations have been doing it for years. Why? Because their stockholders love it. Jack Welch at GE was famous for it and is now the industry standard for CEO’s. The American people and the health of the country are less important than the happiness of the stockholders, whether they live in Europe, China, or wherever.
We need to start outsourcingThese Executive jobs and get into the media about it! It’s a true fairness issue and most Americans will say “Why not? If a Company can get a cheaper CEO from Korea think how much the dividends would increase!The AFL CIO ought to buy stock in these companies and bring motions from the floor at stockholder meetings.
More corporate Greed , spread the word we can hurt there profits real easy.
Hey, Motts. I’ve heard that you have WORMS in your apple products. That’s why I’m eating “Musselman’s! So there!