FritoLay-2021-8841

By Bob Bruneau
October 24, 2024

Workers at Frito-Lay in Topeka, Kansas, May 2021, demand better job conditions and end to forced overtime. Capitalists obtain labor they need “with callous indifference to our health, safety or the needs of our families,” says Mary-Alice Waters. “Then, like the ‘merchants of beauty,’ they sell the products of our labor back to us, reaping enormous profits.”

Workers at Frito-Lay in Topeka, Kansas, May 2021, demand better job conditions and end to forced overtime. Capitalists obtain labor they need “with callous indifference to our health, safety or the needs of our families,” says Mary-Alice Waters. “Then, like the ‘merchants of beauty,’ they sell the products of our labor back to us, reaping enormous profits.”