Ingredion strike enters month 5 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

A picket line has been forming outside of Ingredion daily since Aug. 1. Rain or shine, members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 100G picket outside their former place of work. Their jobs included grinding and steeping corn, among other things for Ingredion, a multinational cornstarch manufacturer. The majority of the company's cornstarch is an ingredient in corrugated cardboard boxes. Ingredion did not accept The Gazette’s interview request for this video.

[@Retiredunionworker7]

Victory to the Brothers and Sisters of BCTGM Local 100G. The big corporations want more workers blood to fill their coffers and the only defense we have, due to the political control of the unions by the bosses Democratic Party, is to strike. Until we have political leadership, controlled by the rank-and-file working class and out allies, we will not move forward. Local 100G members deserve the support and help of all of labor.

[@jorgecarrillo2]

That was a Penford Plant, Guys should be reasonable, Even Former Corn Products plants have been Closed or Sold for unprofitable reasons. they must remember that we are competing with monster Scale Plants that grind 8,000 or even 12,000 tons of corn per day, from Cargill or ADM, those plants operate with very few people and pay no more than Ingredion does, the competence is out there not inside.