PepsiCo to close Chicago bottling plant, impacting 150 workers

PepsiCo said Monday it’s closing a Chicago bottling plant, a move nan Teamsters national says will effect 150 workers

PepsiCo said Monday it’s closing a Chicago bottling plant, a move nan Teamsters union says will effect 150 workers.

PepsiCo said nan determination was difficult but it described nan 60-year-old building arsenic a installation pinch “physical limitations.” The institution said it would salary workers for nan adjacent 60 days moreover though they won’t beryllium required to work.

Teamsters Local 727, which represents nan plant’s workers, said it was informed of nan closure early Monday successful an email sent by PepsiCo attorneys. The national said PepsiCo violated national law, which requires employers to springiness 60 days’ announcement of pending works closures aliases wide layoffs astatine locations pinch 50 aliases much employees.

“To laic disconnected complete a 100 Teamsters workers pinch nary announcement to them aliases nan union, successful usurpation of some our corporate bargaining statement and nan law, is astir arsenic debased arsenic you tin get,” John Coli Jr., nan secretary-treasurer of Local 727, said successful a statement.

Coli said nan national negotiated a caller statement pinch PepsiCo this summertime but wasn’t told astir a imaginable closure. He said nan national whitethorn return ineligible action against nan company.

PepsiCo said its plans meet “applicable ineligible requirements” and it will activity pinch nan union

“Our apical privilege is to support our labor during this transition, and our committedness to service Chicagoland remains strong,” PepsiCo said successful a statement.