Powering the picket line: Workers are turning to tech in their labor battles

On Oct. 13, eight days after 1,400 Kellogg manufacturing plant employees went on strike, the union posted a photo to its public Facebook page. The photo depicts a worker picketing during a night shift amid a downpour. The caption, written by Jeff Jens, a packing troubleshooter at Kellogg and social media manager for The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) Local 50G, reads: “Middle of the night — torrential downpour — fire is drowned out — BUT Local 50G stands strong and our picket sign is higher now than ever before!”