Frito Lays "Suicide Shifts" Spark Worker Strikes

Then you simplify your life and save that money while you look for another place to work.

The business can't vote, so they actually have less rights than the humans that work for them.

You can’t change major companies. You either work with them or you leave. I’ve got the tshirt lol

1) It doesn't affect YOU why do you care?

2) If they don't want to work it they can quit.

These days some of that down time isn’t that long.

One person in the video has worked there for 35 years and makes $20 an hour base pay and hasn't had a raise in a decade.

New hires are at $10 an hour. 40 hours x $10 = $400. 44 hours x $15 (overtime) = $660. That is $1060 per week. If they worked 84 hours a week the entire year minus 2 weeks of vacation (which is based at $400 per week), that is $53,000 base and an additional $800 in vacation pay. 50 weeks of 84 hour shifts is 4200 hours, which comes out to $12.80 per hour.

Again. A factory that cannot operate without a 70-84 hour work week for line workers should not be in business.

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I care about people and I don't want to see others exploited for corporate for profits, regardless of the country.

Quitting isn't an option for many or they would have left a long time ago. No one stays at a job like that because they enjoy working for peanuts while stockholders get rich.

Well when you are working that many hours you are bringing in a lot of money. Save it and reevaluate your life.

Find me a current job listing for Frito-Lay for $10/hr. According to payscale the minimum they pay for any position is $12/hr and packaging/machine operators (factory floor) starts at $16/hr.

Even supposing the minimum of $13/hr:

$13/hr x 40 = $520 x 52 = $27040
$13/hr x 1.5 x 45 = $877.50 x 52 = $45630
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= $72,670/yr.

Even using your example of $12.60/hr:

$12.60/hr x 40 = $540 x 52 = $26208
$12.60/hr x 1.5 x 45 = $850.5 x 52 = $44226
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= $70,434/yr

Let's run with $10/hr:
$10/hr x 40 = $400 x 52 = $20800
$10/hr x 1.5 x 45 = $675 x 52 = $35100
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= $55,900/yr


Doesn't add up to the claims made.

It seems like you're claiming they SHOULD HAVE BEEN paid full time for the extra 45 hours a week, but no business in the US has ever been required by law to pay double time, and everybody knows that.

I also find claims of mandatory overtime to be dubious. If you can't find employees to work full time at $10/hr for 40 hrs/wk what good will it do them to fire existing employees working overtime hours? Surely the whole factory floor would be in revolt if everyone was forced to work 85 hours a week and the company refused to hire new employees?

Are they chained to the work line? They all can quit at anytime no?

If you want to get rich off stock, buy some. PepsiCo has an employee purchase program where employees can buy shares at a discounted rate. In fact, this is exactly how I made a lot of my own money, but I don't work for Pepsi. I'm not paid by Pepsi, and I'm not a shill.... I just saw the numbers and they don't add up.

Modern slavery is the severe exploitation of other people for personal or commercial gain. 84 hour work weeks are inhumane. If you have your own business, you are doing it for your own benefit. If you demand an employee work 12 to 18 hour days and do not give them days off for months, that is exploitation and the definition of modern slavery.

The physical effects from these hours include heart disease, increased cortisol production, nerve damage and depression. the quality of life suffers.

I don't mean to diminish slavery becasue it exists today, in cobalt mines, cacao farms and human trafficking networks. If you want to play with semantics, fine, but Frito=Lay is grossly exploiting their workers because they put profits over the workers who make their products.

If you'd like to know what modern slavery is, I'd suggest moving to China.

I worked that many hours for years. Bunch of fucking pussies!

How hard can it be to make a fucking potato chip?

This isn't about stock - this is about human rights.

If you don't think my math is valid, point out the errors. New line workers start at $10 per hour and a 35-year line worker stated he is only making $20.50 per hour base and has not had a raise in a decade, despite corporate profits.

LOL 'you care', huh? You don't have any clue who those people are or what they do. Nobody is being 'exploited'. They are in a job they can freely leave at any point in time.

Frito Lay is being generous IMO. Many companies don't even offer OT hours. Some people actually WANT to work those hours, make money and maybe invest and retire early.

Why should lazy people who tire after 8 hours of lifting a bag of potato chips ruin the cash bonanza available to the hard workers who want to earn money?

The solution is simple. The workers who don't want to work for Frito Lay should quit. If they blew all their money on smart phones, HDTVs and drugs and can't afford to quit maybe you should help them out since you care so much?

Maybe donate money to organizations that help lazy people and quit jobs that offer lots of OT for cushy 28 hour/week part time jobs with no benefits? That would probably be more effective than bitching about things that don't affect you.

Modern slavery exists in the ME and parts of Africa. Why no bitch about that for a while instead of things that aren't slavery like working a job?

This is communist spin. These workers are raking it in with OT and....they have Union rep oversight.

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Or move bags of potato chips. LOL OMG I bet they are so wore out after moving a bunch of bags of potato chips around for 8 hours!

Not slavery CONFIRMED.

What is the definition of Slave. Unless you read the letters of Slave Americans, you will not understand what slavery is. And then these idiots come along tell others that you are lazy cannot work straight 100 hours.
I am Senior Citizen and I went through a lot of experiences.
Every year the management used to tighten the working rules and implement it in January. Since I was part of the management, I was tight lip. I understood every string that they used to pull.
When I retired from my regular job, I ended up working for steel company for couple of years. Every year at least 3 people died on the job. The Company used to be quick to control the situation by calling us to the meeting and used to tell us their version of the story. Inside we would hear the reality.
Safety talks is BS. It is a stunt that they would go through for regulatory authorities. Unions are useless. The people that get elected are kiss Ass. Never saw genuine person to work for the worker.

You are slave, but you are not called slave. An average worker doesn't know how to deal with crooks. This is where they loose the battle. When they hire you part time, it means they don't have to pay you the benefits. In the past Corporations couldn't keep more than 5% part time. Today they fire the regular worker and replace them with part timer. Revolution has to come.

LOL muh 'human rights'!

They have a Human Right to quit the damn job if they don't like it. End of story.

It isn't. All of the hard work is done by machines. Unless their systems have been updated since I was last in the factory, the only jobs humans did were cleaning, picking burned chips off the conveyor the computer missed, and picking bags and boxing them. Literally everything else was done by machine/computer. I think there were only something like 40 employees total on shift at any given time in the entire factory. This was in the 90s.

I already posted the math. Look back in the thread. The claimed numbers don't add up in ANY scenario.

So you are justifying Frito-Lays exploitation because you worked that many hours, too?

How can one be a good parent if they have no time for their children or spouse? What is the point of working like a dog if you don't even have a moment to enjoy your existence on this planet?

The Frito-Lay factory workers were not given a single day off for months.

I know what it is like to put in 100 hour work weeks, half of which was intense physical labor. It was my own business and had to be done. I never allowed my employees to work more than 45 hours a week and they all got 4 weeks paid vacation a year, holiday pay and double time if they worked holidays. I also paid them living wages, not minimum wage. If I couldn't create a profitable business that didn't rely on exploiting my workers, I shouldn't be in business. Same with Frito-Lay.

If they can't hang find someone who will!

I want to see them on the bus bumper line!

Exactly.

And to the one listing the government laws on hours of service for truckers.

Hell you don't either drive trucks or aren't a "runner".

Some of us get shit done for ungrateful fugs that bitch about an 80 he work week while collecting gubmit bennies