2022
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Twenty five members of the U.S. House of Representatives followed the lead of the U.S. Senate in writing to Rich Products Chairman Robert E. Rich Jr., urging the company to end the strike by Local 37 members at the Jon Donaire Desserts plant in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. by engaging in good faith bargaining. "Most of these workers are Latina women who are on strike – many with their children. We are concerned about the...

24 January, 2022

An overwhelming atmosphere of solidarity met BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton and International Secretary-Treasurer David Woods as they walked the picket line outside the Jon Donaire Desserts plant in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. with striking members of Local 37.Workers at the plant, who make and decorate ice cream cakes for food chains including Ralphs, Walmart and Baskin-Robbins, have been on strike fighting for a livable wage and a fair contract since November 3. Jon Donaire...

21 January, 2022

The BCTGM joins with the AFL-CIO in commending President Biden’s Federal Reserve appointments and urge their speedy confirmation by the U.S. Senate.Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former member of the Board of Governors, is an experienced financial regulator with a strong track record of putting the public interest first when dealing with the power of the financial system. She is eminently suited to the critical role of vice chair of supervision. Professors Lisa Cook, who has...

14 January, 2022

In a scathing letter to Rich Products Chairman Robert E. Rich Jr., seven United States Senators condemned the company's refusal to negotiate a fair contract for the 100 BCTGM Local 37 members at Jon Donaire Desserts plant in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. Workers at the factory have been on strike since November 3, 2021. "Let’s be clear. Rich Products is not a poor company. It is not going broke. Last year, your company made over...

12 January, 2022

The below article about Local 37 members on strike against Jon Donaire (Rich Products) in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. was written by Caitlin Hernández and published on LA List on Jan 5. Workers at Jon Donaire Desserts in Santa Fe Springs have been on strike to get a fair contract for nine weeks, missing vital paychecks during the peak of the holiday season. While parent company Rich’s hasn’t returned to the bargaining table since union members voted...

07 January, 2022