US Beverage-Maker Mott's Celebrates Booming Sales and Share Price by Attacking Wages!

[Omaha Steve]

US Beverage-Maker Mott's Celebrates Booming Sales and Share Price by
Attacking Wages!

Workers at juice and beverage manufacturer Mott's in Williamson, New
York, members of the RWDSU-UFCW Local 220, are being asked to
celebrate the company's highly successful sales and stock performance
by agreeing to steep cuts in their wages and the elimination of their
pension plan. Mott's is a subsidiary of the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group,
the North American beverages division spun off by Cadbury Schweppes in
2008, whose leading brands in addition to Mott's include Snapple,
Yoo-hoo, A&W and Hires root beers, Crush, Sunkist, Hawaiian Punch,
Canada Dry, Squirt, RC Cola, Diet Rite, and of course Schweppes, among
others.

In negotiations for a new collective agreement, management is
demanding an across-the-board reduction of wages of USD 2.50 per hour
and the total elimination of their company pension scheme! The
company's only announced rationale for these steep cuts has been that
the workers simply earn too much - an astonishing claim for a
profitable, growing company.

You can support the union by sending a strong, simple message to Dr.
Pepper Snapple CEO Larry Young: the company's demands are
unacceptable!

To send a message go to

http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=500

[xchrom]

1. Our corporate owners have it down to a formula. Nt

[d_r]

2. companies are using the bad ecomony as an excuse

they are totally using the poor job market as a tool - nobody wants to try to find a job right now, so the companies are using that to screw workers over.