AFL-CIO Highlights Veronica Hopkins for Black History Month
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08 Feb AFL-CIO Highlights Veronica Hopkins for Black History Month

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This year, for Black History Month, the AFL-CIO is highlighting union leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. This week the AFL-CIO highlighted the BCTGM’s very own Veronica Hopkins. Veronica became a member of the BCTGM 23 years ago, when she went to work at the Post cereal plant in Naperville, Illinois. The plant, now owned by Mondelēz International, was part of the nationwide Nabisco strike in 2021. As an organizer for BCTGM Local 1 in Chicago, Hopkins played a vital role in the strike, which halted production at all Mondelēz facilities in the U.S. Hopkins now serves as an international organizer and business agent for BCTGM and travels the country helping workers who want to join the union. “I work to help workers feel their own value and fight for equality,” she says.

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