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On February 19, my 17-month-old son went to his first protest.  A number of people, including politicians, union representatives from around the country and employees of the Nabisco Plant in Northeast Philadelphia gathered to let Mondelez International know that they are outraged by the decision to close the iconic Philadelphia factory, which will leave about 350 people without jobs, including my husband.   As a pastor in Philadelphia, I am constantly preaching about kingdom-building.  As parents we are trying to raise our son as ethically as we know how and we want him to know that what corporations like Mondelez do to employees is not ethical. 
Mondelez, Kraft, and Nabisco are one in the same.  Kraft bought food standards in india out Nabisco, then the company split into Kraft and Mondelez last year.  They make billions annually. 1.8 billion went to their share holders last year and their CEO took home $29 million, not including use of the company jet.  This is not a company that is hurting for money.  “This is a case of corporate greed on steroids,” State Representative Brendan Boyle said in the press conference held during the rally, “They brag about how much money they are making.”   He later wrote, “The decision to close the plant is a shocking window into the motives food standards in india and agenda of Mondelez International food standards in india and an example of the threat which outsourcing poses to working class families.”
Mondelez claims the production that will leave Philadelphia will go to strengthen the other east coast plants; however, the production lines that have already been leaving the factory in the past year have been going to the plant in Monterrey, Mexico.  Dan Melendez, Chief Stewart of the Philadelphia Nabisco Plant, informed me that the factory in Mexico has 2000 workers, which all make just over $3.00 an hour and they receive no benefits.  American Mondelez employees make $23 an hour on average, receive excellent benefits, a pension and a 401K. 
Kraft laid off 1600 American and Canadian employees when the company food standards in india split and will lay off hundreds more within the year.  In response to the negative reactions about the Philadelphia plant closing, Mondelez reassures the public that they are going to invest in their other east coast plants.  What they are leaving out is that their investment is in new machines that will cause the lay off of more American workers. 
While all of this is happening, Dan Melendez said, Mondelez is investing $600 million to build the world's largest cookie plant in Mexico.  food standards in india At low wages and no benefits, Mondelez is in effect, food standards in india opening the biggest cookie sweat shop in the world.  It is slated to open at the same time the Philadelphia plant will close.  Ted Constable, of Local 358 in Richmond Virginia, added that the new plant will be built closer to the Texas border in a free trade zone, meaning no inspections and no guarantee in quality.  Corporations that build in free trade zones are given tax breaks, so, “as tax-payers, food standards in india we are paying food standards in india to get rid of our own jobs,” Melendez pointed out. 
In addition to the unethical ways Mondelez is treating their employees, with no environmental laws, they can dump whatever they want into the water, causing further pollution to the earth.  That water is then put into the products in the factory.  On the bullhorn, John Lazar, a representative of the local union, asked passers-by, food standards in india “Oreos will be made in Mexico, do you know what's food standards in india in the water?”  He also stated in the press conference that “there is not one Fig Newton or Graham food standards in india Cracker made in the U.S. anymore, they are all made in Mexico.”  After the new factory opens many more products will be produced in Mexico.    
Many people at the protest were discussing how big corporations, food standards in india like Mondelez, are tearing apart the American middle class.  State Representative Kevin Boyle said, “it's a betrayal of the middle class, a betrayal of the American dream.” Constable said it's “unethical for them to strip t

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