An 11-week strike is ending after 1,400 Kellogg’s cereal workers have accepted a contract deal. The workers, concentrated in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, had rejected a previous offer, then faced threats from Kellogg that it would hire permanent replacements.  All the workers will get wage increases and cost-of-living adjustments, but a two-tier system that had spurred strong opposition will remain largely intact—on that front, the current offer that workers accepted was unchanged from the one they recently rejected. Workers hired after 2015 have had lower pay and weaker benefits than their longer-tenured coworkers. Under the new deal, workers who have been at Kellogg for more than four years will get veteran worker status, and each year of the deal, another 3% of a plant’s headcount will be moved up to the veteran tier.  Read more