In July 2015, Nabisco announced it had chosen to invest an additional $130 million in its new $400 million plant in Salinas, Mexico, instead of investing that money in its iconic plant in Chicago. As a result, 600 workers in Chicago could lose their jobs and an entire South Side community could be devastated. Watch and share this video with everyone you know! Join the fight to save American Jobs! TAKE ACTION!Β Click here to sign our...
Generations of BCTGM Local 300Β families from this Southside Chicago community have produced Nabisco products for more than five decades. Sign this petition to MondelΔz/Nabisco CEO urging her to stop outsourcing American jobs to Mexico: http://bit.ly/1QGFVdA...
In response to MondelΔz Internationalβs ongoing violations of its Collective Bargaining Agreement, BCTGM Local 300 β which represents nearly 1,000 members at the MondelΔz Nabisco Bakery located at 7300 Kedzie Avenue in Chicago β filed for injunctive relief requesting court-compelled arbitration regarding these violations. The complaint particularly calls for arbitration regarding the companyβs continued use of non-union employees in bargaining unit positions instead of hiring union employees into open positions, as required under the Collective...
International Union of Food Workers Announces Solidarity in Support of United Effort to Protect Worker Rights KENSINGTON, Md., January 7, 2015 βThe International Union of Food Workers (IUF) and its affiliates, representing 2.5 million workers in 126 countries, have affirmed their solidarity with MondelΔz International workers across the globe. IUF affiliates represent the vast majority of MondelΔz manufacturing employees in over 30 countries from Alexandria, Egypt to Chicago, Illinois; and since 1920, the organization has been...
Following a months-long investigation, Region 18 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that it had decided to issue a complaint charging Ingredion, Inc. with multiple violations of the National Labor Relations Act at its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility. Those violations include illegally engaging in βsurface bargainingββ meaning engaging in a sham process of going through the motions without an intention of reaching agreement β with members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers...
Americaβs economy has swung out of balance. Itβs getting harder to get by, let alone get ahead. Everyday Americans are working more than ever before. Our work has created record wealth for an economic recovery thatβs been everywhere but ordinary peoplesβ wallets. Our economic rules unfairly favor corporate CEOs and the rich because they manipulate the rules in their favor. Almost no one stands up for average Americans these days,Β and now there is a Supreme Court...
Local 1 Richmond Baking Workers On Strike During the contract meeting held on Sunday, January 3, 2016 workers at Richmond Baking Company, members of Local Union 1 Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union AFL-CIO-CLC, voted unanimously to reject the company’s final offer. They later voted unanimously to set a strike date and time for 2 p.m. Monday, January 4, 2016. Negotiations with Richmond Baking Company, located at 520 N. Sixth Street Richmond...
According to a recent blog piece by The Atlantic, Β laws raising the minimum wage in 12 states wentΒ into effect on January 1st. Additionally, the minimum wage in Maryland and Washington D.C. will go up in July, andΒ inflation adjustments will be made to raise the minimum wage in Colorado and South Dakota. A handful of cities and counties, including New York, will also see minimum-wage increases. Efforts to raise the minimum wage paid off in 2015, and as...
The holidays are best enjoyed with union-madeΒ cookies, cakes and desserts! BCTGM Local 24 (SanΒ Francisco) represents union bakers at numerousΒ specialty bakeries renowned for scratch madeΒ breads, cookies, cakes and pastries. San Franciscoβs Boudin Bakeries hasΒ produced sourdough bread since 1849.Β Since apprenticing withΒ former Boudin ownerΒ βPapa Steveβ GiraudoΒ at 17, Master Baker andΒ BCTGM Local 24 memberΒ Fernando Padilla hasΒ lovingly preserved BoudinβsΒ breadmaking traditions.Β On his role in continuingΒ the Boudin legacy,Β Fernando says: βLike PapaΒ Steve, Iβm just anotherΒ baker.β The modest and talented Fernando leads aΒ team of 20...
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 StatesΒ since 1970, numerous other workers have lost their lives in...
The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released, and itβs worse than we thought. It has many of the same provisions that gave corporations and CEOs more power over our communities and shipped jobs overseas. Watch this video to learn why TPP is not good for America's workers. https://youtu.be/yVkom0B_UjY...
More than three years have passedΒ since they voted to form a union andΒ Panera workers in Michigan are still waiting. The franchisee that owns the Panera Bread stores in the region continues to refuse to recognize the BCTGM as the official collective bargaining representative of the bakers and refuses to meet to bargain a first contract.Β The NLRB found that Panera broke the law by refusing to bargain, and ordered the company to bargain with the...
Annabelle Candy Company: Rocky Road, Abba Zaba, Look, Big Hunk and U-No. (Local 125/Oakland, Calif.) Boyer Candies: Mallo Cups, Peanut Butter Cups, Smoothie Cups, Triple Twist Pretzels, Dark Chocolate Mallo Cups. (Local 19/Cleveland, Ohio) Concord Confections (Tootsie Roll Industries): Double Bubble Bubble Gum. (Local 264/Toronto) Ghirardelli Chocolate: Pumpkin Spice Caramel Squares, Solid Milk, Milk & Caramel, Solid 60% Cacao Dark and Dark & Sea Salt Caramel and all varieties of chocolates. (Local 125/Oakland, Calif.) Hershey: Hershey Milk Chocolate Bars, Hershey Milk Chocolate with Almond Bars, Cookies Nβ Creme...
Twin Cities, Minn. β After months of negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement, workers at the Pearsonβs Candy Company facility in St. Paul, Minn. are urging company CEO Michael Keller to force company negotiators to bargain in good faith. BCTGM Local Union 22 and Pearsonβs Candy have yet to reach agreement on a new contract to replace the one that expires on October 27. Local 22 represents more than 160 employees at the candy facility,...
The BCTGM, together with the AFL-CIO, has gone on the offensive to convince Congress and the Obama Administration, that a 40 percent excise tax on so-called βCadillacβ health care plans will have a detrimental effect on union workers who have sacrificed to maintain quality health care coverage for themselves and their families. The tax is part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and would force employers to pay a 40 percent tax on health benefits that...