[MD Expat in PA]

The parent company of Nabisco, Mondelez International, ”will lay off half of its 1,200 employees in its bakery on Chicago's Southwest Side after deciding to make a major investment in a Mexico plant rather than its long-standing facility here”….”decided not to make a $130 million upgrade to the facility, the company's largest U.S. bakery, which dates to the 1950s, because the three unions that represent workers either did not make a proposal to keep the work or their concession packages were inadequate, said Laurie Guzzinati, a Mondelez spokeswoman.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-nabisco-mondelez-plant-0730-biz-20150729-story.html

Of course the unions claim that that was it was Mondelez’s plan all along to shift some of its production to Mexico, however the union also admitted that they never submitted a proposal to keep the jobs in Chicago.

"The only reason they made an appeal to Chicago is so that they can try to get $46 million in concessions back from Chicago," said Ed Burpo, president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 300, which represents about 1,000 workers at the plant and did not submit a proposal. "The company had already made the decision where those lines were going."

Trump on unions:

Donald Trump on Unions

[xzins]

What if the sugar people are in cahoots with the Mondalez group? Keep sugar high in the US to ship US jobs and plants to Mexico. All along, the sugar people are guaranteed a minimum of international market price on sugar.

[central_va]

Gee maybe Alabama would have loved to have that factory.

But our gloBULList captains of industry, that illustrious lot, probably never considered a R-T-W state. No, just go straight for the third world.

I hope the board of directors choke on their crappy Oreo's and they all croak..