Unionized employees at a meals recycling plant in Hodgkins walked off the task Monday, bringing up problems about pay and protection they stated had been unaddressed within the corporate’s “best and final” contract be offering. The individuals of Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers started picketing out of doors the regional operation of ReConserve, an organization based totally in Santa Monica, California, that reprocesses bread, cereal grains and snacks into farm animals feed. The strikers stated they're paid lower than different firms be offering for similar jobs and that prerequisites on the plant have worsened since July, when a fireplace destroyed a ReConserve plant in Terre Haute, Indiana, and paintings used to be despatched to