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Senate Bill 1513 was written specifically to target overtime abuse at Nabisco’s Portland plant, but the company hasn’t changed its actions.

Machinists, electricians and operating engineers at the Mondelez-Nabisco bakery in Portland have new contract agreements.

‘No contract, no snacks’ Nabisco strikers are saying—their livelihoods on the line in a nationwide struggle against corporate greed.

David Woods is the lead union negotiator trying to bargain a new contract at Nabisco. We spoke with him by phone Aug. 26.

It’s been a long time coming. Provoked by round after round of demands by Nabisco for concessions, the union BCTGM reached a breaking point.

The snack-maker, flush with profits amid a snack boom, is demanding further concessions from its main union.

BCTGM agreed to extend nationwide contracts to the end of May and raise wage 2.25%. But Nabisco is closing plants in Georgia and New Jersey.

Mondelēz agreed to pay $1,040 each to 34 Machinists Lodge 63 members for having subcontracted demolition work on a production line.

If Nabisco closes its N.J. and Georgia plants in 2021, just three would remain: Portland, Chicago, and Richmond. And lots of Mexican product.

The settlement ends a two-year battle over subcontracting work on a Portland bakery production line that makes Ritz crackers.