BCTGM-Made
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Delight your friends and loved ones with holiday treats made by hard-working BCTGM members! Listed here is a small sampling of holiday goodies made by BCTGM members in the U.S. and Canada. Allan Candy Company (Hershey Company) Allan Traditional Candy Canes (Peppermint, Cherry and Mini Peppermint), Allan Holiday Collection Candy Canes (French Vanilla & Gingerbread, Butterscotch & Cappucino, Mini Canes), Allan Fruit Buddies Candy Canes, Allan Chewy Candy Canes. BCTGM Local 350T (Granby, Quebec) Annabelle Candy Company Rocky Road, Abba...

01 December, 2023

Delight your friends and loved ones with holiday treats made by hard-working BCTGM members! Allan Candy Canes (Hershey Company) Allan Traditional Candy Canes (Peppermint, Cherry and Mini Peppermint), Allan Holiday Collection Candy Canes (French Vanilla & Gingerbread, Butterscotch & Cappucino, Mini Canes), Allan Fruit Buddies Candy Canes, Allan Chewy Candy Canes.Local 350T (Granby, Quebec) Annabelle Candy Company Rocky Road, Abba Zaba, Look, Big Hunk and U-No.Boyer Candies: Mallo cups, Peanut Butter cups, triple twist pretzels.Local 125 (San Leandro, Calif.) Brown...

15 December, 2022

Labor solidarity was vital to the success of the strikes by BCTGM members at Frito Lay, Nabisco, Kelloggโ€™s and Jon Donaire. This is why when the BCTGM learned that musicians at the San Antonio Symphony were on strike for a fair contract, we teamed with BIMBO Bakeries U.S.A. to provide the workers and their families with union-made bread and snacks. For months, the 72 members of American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 23 in San Antonio...

15 March, 2022

From chips, pies and cookies to ice cream cones, hot dog and hamburger buns and soda, products made by BCTGM members are essential ingredients for summertime fun. The products listed on these pages are just some of the BCTGM-Made-In-North America products produced by hardworking union members. This list is not inclusive of every BCTGM local or union-made product (we do not have enough space to list them all!). BCTGM members work for hundreds of North...

07 July, 2021

Cookies, pies, muffins, artesian breads, cakes, cheese cakes, bagels and numerous other specialty bakery items sold in 106 Wegmans stores are proudly made by hard-working BCTGM Local 116 (Auburn, N.Y.) workers at the companyโ€™s flagship bakery in Rochester, N.Y. Carlos Andujar (Breads, Local 116 President) and Ray Colon (shop co-chair)Corelis Matos Ross, Fardosa Said, Rodha Said, and Justina Nwamadi (Sweets)Jose Gonzalez and Alexander Daniel (Parbake)Rosa West and Val Wheems (Sweets)Vahid Begovic (Shipping) There are 424 union...

02 July, 2021

This year marks the 70th anniversary for Annabelle Candy Company in Hayward, Calif. which is home to legendary BCTGM Local 125-made candy bars Abba-Zaba, Rocky Road, Big Hunk, U-NO and Look! By 1950, Altshulerโ€™s candy was so popular that he opened a larger scale candy manufacturing business and named it after his daughter, Annabelle.Annabelle's is now run by Gary Gogol, Altshuler's grandson. Local 125 members continue to make candy at the same Hayward, California factory that...

15 December, 2020

This is a sweet Christmas cookie story. It is a story about how a second place winner becomes a confectionary legend. It is a story about a peanut butter cookie, topped with a BCTGM Local 464-made chocolate Hersheyโ€™s kiss. Formally called the โ€œpeanut blossom,โ€ these cookies are near-ubiquitous around holiday baking traditions. They are the ultimate Christmas comfort confectionโ€• and they came into being by accident. As the story has been told, a Ohio baker named...

11 December, 2020

Before BCTGM Local 1 (Chicago) members at Tootsie Roll Industries started making 64 million miniature chewy chocolates a day in Chicago, inventorย Leo Hirshfield sold the individually hand-wrapped candies at his small Brooklyn, N.Y. store. Abel Torres, Matthew Borger, Julian Ortega, Javier Reyes, Jose Gomez An Austrian immigrant, Hirshfield always dreamed of becoming a candy maker. In 1896, Hirschfield began making chocolate chewy candies from an old family recipe, which he hand-rolled, wrapped and sold individually. He named...

05 December, 2020

In Bloomington, Ill., BCTGM Local 342 members have proudly produced some of America's favorite chocolate candies for 63 years. Union members at the plant negotiated their first collective bargaining agreement in 1957 when they produced Beich's Candy. In 1984, Nestlรฉ acquired the facility and Local 342 members began producing the company's iconic Nestlรฉ Crunch bar, Nestlรฉ Toll House Morsels and other brands owned by Nestlรฉ. Now, Local 342 members will be making chocolate for the...

01 December, 2020

Together with the Metro Detroit AFL-CIO, the UAW, Ford and BIMBO Bakeries, Local 326 helped deliver thousands of pounds of BCTGM-made products to the Community Action Agency of Monroe County and numerous area food banks. The union goods will be distributed to working families hardest hit by the financial crisis caused by the pandemic. According to Local 326 President and Business Agent Nikee Craine-Kanitz, the multi-day event included gathering Sara Lee/BIMBO Bakeries USA products from...

11 June, 2020

Nearly 150 union families in San Antonio, Texas received boxes overflowing with Nabisco/Mondelez products and BIMBO Bakeries USA bread made by BCTGM Local 111 members at the San Antonio bakery. For the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, the Texas Workforce Commission listed more than 93,000 jobs lost. Combined, the area around the two cities reached an unemployment rate of 13.7% Across the state, 1,298,900 jobs have been lost. The BCTGM was among...

11 June, 2020

BCTGM Local 85 wanted to find a meaningful way to support the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services and make sure families and individuals in their community received the food they need during the pandemic. Partnering with the Bimbo Bakeries USA Sacramento Plant & Northern Imports Western Division, Local 85 members loaded a total of 3,592 pounds of BCTGM-made products into two BIMBO trucks and delivered it to the food bank. The Sacramento Food Bank &...

11 June, 2020

The coronavirus is everywhere in America, and so is hunger. Food banks all across America are struggling to meet surging demand from those hit hard by mass layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In Michigan, the demand for food assistance is rising at an extraordinary rate, just as the stateโ€™s food banks are being struck by shortages. To help combat the growing problem within their region, BCTGM Local Unions representing Kelloggโ€™s workers in Michigan led an effort...

29 May, 2020

The BCTGM Local 6 Food Relief caravan arrived this morning at Bader Field in Atlantic City. The mission? To help the more than 15,000 casino and entertainment workers who have lost jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. UNITE HERE Local 54 President Bob McDevitt (center) represents the casino workers of Atlantic City hardest hit by the economic fallout caused by the pandemic.Operation Feed Atlantic City sets up The Local 6 team began the food relief...

28 May, 2020

The BCTGM Food Relief caravan departed the Philadelphia AFL-CIO early this afternoon and headed across town to the Tastykake bakery where members of BCTGM Local 492 make snack cakes. Upon arrival, union members helped load five pallets of Tastykake. The trucks next headed to Mays Landing, N.J. to the BIMBO Bakeries USA depot to refill the trucks with additional products donated by the company. "BIMBO Bakeries has been just amazing. They have always been...

27 May, 2020