2011 October
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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OSHA fined Bridgford Foods Corp. $422,600 and cited the company for 27 safety and health violations at its food manufacturing facility in Dallas. The violations include failing to establish and maintain a hearing conservation program for workers exposed to noise hazards beyond the permissible exposure limit, and failing to establish a lockout/tagout program for energy sources to protect workers from machines starting up unexpectedly. OSHA has placed Bridgford in its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP),...

28 October, 2011

๏ปฟ (Photo: The Rick Smith Show, PA) On September 23, 400 student guest workers from around the world were joined by 1,000 unemployed American workers, union members, activists and labor leaders in a march and rally outside the Hershey Chocolate Company packing plant in Pennsylvania. The students marched up Chocolate Avenue leading a massive group of 1,000 supporters. The crowd bore signs reading โ€œJustice at Hersheyโ€™sโ€ and โ€œExploitation Is Wrong in Any Language,โ€ and chanted, โ€œHey Hersheyโ€™s, canโ€™t...

26 October, 2011

Today, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) announced their official endorsement of the Occupy Wall Street movement for economic and political justice. โ€œWe stand in solidarity with those protesting Wall Streetโ€™s greed. The consequences of this insidious wave of corporate greed โ€“ hundreds of communities pummeled; countless families devastated; the standard of living for workers sabotaged and our manufacturing capability strangled. These protests are sending a clear message to Wall Street...

06 October, 2011