RyKrisp shutdown ends close-knit workplace, good union jobs (buy them b4 they are gone)

Workers at RyKrisp’s Minneapolis plant, left to right: John Moreland, Larry Moreland, Aivars Feders, Kelly Frischmon, Dion Gayden. Minneapolis Labor Review photo


http://www.workdayminnesota.org/articles/rykrisp-shutdown-ends-close-knit-workplace-good-union-jobs

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review
March 12, 2015

MINNEAPOLIS
When the RyKrisp production plant in southeast Minneapolis closes Monday, workers there will lose what they say has been not only a good union job but also a very close-knit workplace.

The 15 workers employed at the plant are members of Local 22 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union. Their union’s efforts to improve wages and working conditions goes back to the 1930s.



The plant has operated at 824 6th Ave. SE since 1926, producing nationally-distributed rye crackers.

Aivars Feders, unit leader, said he had worked at RyKrisp “just shy of 39 years.”

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