The striking workers are opposing the company’s proposal to increase health care premiums, starting with $20 more a week, and culminating with $81 more a week, or $324 a month, by 2025.
COLORADO TRUCKERS STRIKE 2021 DRIVERS
The Teamsters pushed through a contract on the production workers while drivers and delivery workers rejected the company’s final contract offer. If one rejects, the other one still has to go to work.”īoth bargaining units had workers vote on contract proposals Sunday. Unfortunately, with Pepsi’s contracts, it’s in there that they’ve got to go to work. Harvey Jackson, vice president of Teamsters Local 142, told the Times of Northwest Indiana, “Where we’re going to be picketing, they probably won’t have to go through. Gary, Indiana Teamsters Local 142 has agreed to separate contracts between the striking drivers and delivery workers and the production workers at the bottling facility who are continuing to work. In every case, workers find themselves in direct conflict with the unions, which are collaborating with the corporations to suppress the burgeoning movement by workers for substantial improvements in wages, benefits and working conditions. The strike of Pepsi drivers and Frito-Lay workers is part of a growing wave of rebellions by the working class internationally against poverty wages, financial pressures from rising inflation and attacks on their living standards by multinational corporations, which have profited handsomely during the pandemic. The metropolitan Chicago area drivers and delivery workers walked out as 600 workers at Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, continued their strike in Topeka, Kansas, which began on July 5. The clemency granted by Polis was one of dozens of year-end commutations and pardons announced on Thursday by the governor, a first-term Democrat.More than 100 truck drivers, merchandisers and delivery personnel struck on Monday at a PepsiCo bottling facility in Munster, Indiana to oppose the demands of the company and fight for improved wages and against the corporation’s move to shift more healthcare costs onto workers. "Two weeks ago, they (prosecutors) were perfectly fine with my client getting 110 years until there was a public outcry,” he told Reuters after the hearing. 13, a proceeding apparently rendered moot by the governor's action.Įarlier this week, Colgan called King's motion to seek a reduced sentence “disingenuous.”
Jones ordered both sides to file briefs and set another hearing for Jan. "I never thought about hurting anyone in my entire life," he said.Īt Monday's hearing, Jones said it was virtually without precedent for prosecutors, rather than defense attorneys, to seek a reduced sentence in such a case. Prosecutors never alleged that Aguilera-Mederos, who had no criminal record, was impaired or had any criminal intent.Īt sentencing, Aguilera-Mederos wept as he asked for forgiveness and leniency. He knew the brakes on his tractor-trailer were failing but descended the mountains anyway, prosecutors said, bypassing a runaway truck ramp and crashing into stopped traffic along Interstate 70 west of Denver when he lost control of the vehicle. At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Aguilera-Mederos, who was hauling a load of lumber, was improperly trained in driving on mountain roads.
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