2015 December
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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The holidays are best enjoyed with union-madeย cookies, cakes and desserts! BCTGM Local 24 (Sanย Francisco) represents union bakers at numerousย specialty bakeries renowned for scratch madeย breads, cookies, cakes and pastries. San Franciscoโ€™s Boudin Bakeries hasย produced sourdough bread since 1849.ย Since apprenticing withย former Boudin ownerย โ€œPapa Steveโ€ Giraudoย at 17, Master Baker andย BCTGM Local 24 memberย  Fernando Padilla hasย lovingly preserved Boudinโ€™sย breadmaking traditions.ย On his role in continuingย the Boudin legacy,ย Fernando says: โ€œLike Papaย Steve, Iโ€™m just anotherย baker.โ€ The modest and talented Fernando leads aย team of 20...

16 December, 2015

More than five years after 29 miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., justice was finally served as former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was found criminally guilty for a conspiracy to willfully violate the Mine Safety and Health Act. While the tragedy was the largest loss of life in a mine accident in the United Statesย since 1970, numerous other workers have lost their lives in...

03 December, 2015