Organizing Campaigns
In 2002, the majority of more than 800 workers at the Consolidated Biscuit Company (CBC) plant in McComb, Ohio decided to exercise their right to form a union and signed recognition cards. But Consolidated Biscuit hired a union busting firm and started threatening workers with firings, deportations, plant closure, reduction of wages and more.
In May 2010 Hearthside Food Solutions acquired CBC, while the workers were still in a fight for union representation. On January 10, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ordered that Hearthside fully comply with the Court’s November 14, 2008 judgement to CBC. (Read a summary of the full Consent Order here).
A new anti-union campaign ensued at the hands of Hearthside Food Solutions, whose owners invested a massive amount of money into new union-busting, fear-mongering consultants. A re-run election was held on May 6, 2011, nearly ten years after the start of the campaign. The majority of the new workforce voted AGAINST the union, despite the BCTGM’s best efforts.
Today, the BCTGM awaits a re-run election in 2012. Go to the CBC/Hearthside Campaign website, www.onecontract.org, for more information, and a countdown clock to the next election!
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In September 2005, employees at the newly built Interbake Foods plant in Front Royal, VA contacted BCTGM Local 68 for help in establishing a BCTGM union contract. An overwhelming majority of employees signed authorization cards signifying their desire to join the BCTGM.
The following May, management became aware of an organizing drive and began interfering with the workers campaign for a union. Thirty-six Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) were filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over the course of this campaign (click here to read some of them).
In early 2008, six employees at the Interbake plant, who happened to be union supporters, were fired. An election was held in April 2008, which reulted in the company being favored by three votes. Ballots submitted by five of the fired employees, however, have not been opened. The NLRB has yet to to issue official election results as it determines if the ballots of the fired union supporters should be opened and counted.
Go to the Weston’s/Interbake Campaign web page for more information.
Interested in Joining the BCTGM?
The BCTGM has won workplace rights and collective bargaining agreements for thousands of North American workers. The BCTGM believes that every worker deserves affordable health insurance, prescription drug coverage, a living wage, safe working conditions, equal opportunity, a secure pension and a voice in the workplace. BCTGM members enjoy the security of a union contract and the collective strength of thousands of other workers.
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The BCTGM represents working men and women at some of the best known companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. We represent manufacturing and production workers, maintenance and sanitation workers primarily in the bakery, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries in North America.
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