Dive Brief:

• Some 225 workers have been locked out of their jobs at Kellogg's manufacturing plant in Memphis for more than three months. 
• The company is looking to reduce costs. The workers, who earn about $28 an hour and don't pay health insurance premiums, have been kept out of the plant since Oct. 22. Wages are not being paid and insurance payments are not being made.
• City and county politicians are demanding that Kellogg reach a deal and let the employees return to work.

Dive Insight:

A job that pays $28 an hour with free health insurance is a very good job indeed. In 2014, it's also a very rare job — and as Kellogg closes plants in North Carolina and Ontario to reduce costs, it seems unlikely that those $28-an-hour jobs are here to stay.