Eggo maker warns buyers of shortage
Published 10:28 pm Thursday, November 18, 2010
Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them. The company’s Atlanta plant was shut down for an undisclosed period by a September storm that dumped historic amounts of rain in the area. Meanwhile, several production lines at its largest bakery in Rossville, Tenn., are closed indefinitely for repairs, company spokeswoman Kris Charles said in an e-mail. It will take until the middle of 2010 before shelves around the country are stocked at pre-shutdown levels, Charles said. Already customers are noticing near-empty Eggo shelves in the freezer aisle at many stores.
Air travel expected to dip for Thanksgiving
A leading auto organization is projecting a 1.4 percent increase in Thanksgiving travel this year, although fewer people will travel by air because of budget concerns, reduced airline capacity and added charges. AAA said Wednesday it expects 38.4 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home over this year’s holiday weekend compared to 37.8 million last year. The number of automobile travelers is expected to be 33.2 million compared to 32.5 million last year — an increase of 2.1 percent. Air travel, however, is projected to decline 6.7 percent, or 2.3 million travelers this year compared to 2.5 million in 2008. AAA said the share of Thanksgiving travelers journeying by air has been declining for a decade.
Russell Athletic bows to student protests
Sports apparel maker Russell Athletic says it will open a new factory in Honduras and rehire ousted union workers after widespread student protests on U.S. college campuses. The company announced the decision on its Web site this week. Leaders of the long-running anti-sweatshop movement say the company’s move is its biggest victory to date. Nearly 100 colleges and universities had dropped their licensing deals with the company in response to student pressure. The deals allow manufacturers to print clothing with colleges’ trademarks.
Unions team up to organize T-Mobile
Union officials in the United States are teaming up with their German counterparts in a bid to organize workers at wireless carrier T-Mobile USA. Leaders at the Communications Workers of America said Wednesday that the new arrangement with German union ver.di will help show a “double standard” between how European companies treat workers in their home countries compared with the U.S. T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom AG is known as a union-friendly model in Germany, where cooperation with unions is encouraged by labor laws. But CWA president Larry Cohen says T-Mobile USA has worked aggressively against union organizing since it entered the U.S. market nine years ago.
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