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Workers went on strike and pushed union drives in record numbers after corporations made giant pandemic profits.

Employees at the snack giant’s facility in Kansas demand an end to unpredictable hours and what they call hazardous conditions amid soaring profits.

Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.

In cities all across the country, workers stand on street corners, line up in alleys or wait in a neon-lit beauty salon for rickety vans to whisk them off to warehouses miles away. Some vans are so packed that to get to work, people must squat on milk crates, sit on the laps of passengers they do not know or sometimes lie on the floor, the other workers’ feet on top of them.