Check the Label
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Following a morning protest outside the Mondelēz International Annual Meeting last Wednesday, BCTGM and Nabisco 600 supporters headed to the Hatchery Chicago – a food business incubator in East Garfield Park – to demonstrate against their new partnership with the company. The following is an excerpt from Block Club Chicago – read the full article here. EAST GARFIELD PARK — Employees and retired workers of the Nabisco bakery staged a protest at the Hatchery Chicago in response...

22 May, 2019

For a forth year in a row, BCTGM union members from around the country descended on Lincolnshire, Ill. for the 2019 Nabisco/Mondelēz shareholder meeting. Despite the rejection by last year's shareholders for the proposed CEO pay package, Dirk Van De Put's pay grew to be 489 times larger than the median employee pay - which decreased 28% in the same time period. Today, Nabisco workers in Mexico earn as little as 97 cents per hour, while their CEO...

22 May, 2019

Representatives from the Interfaith Workers Justice (IWJ), along with workers’ rights activists from FLOC, Texas AFL-CIO and others, took their six-city investigation into Mondelēz International to Monterrey, Mexico on Monday to speak with workers there and deliver a powerful message on behalf of the BCTGM Nabisco 600. A press conference from the Telephone Workers Union hall in Monterrey launched the day of action, with Anthony Jackson, Local 300 member and former Nabisco worker, conveying a statement on behalf of...

28 November, 2017

The United Autoworkers has launched BuildBuyUSA campaign. BuildBuyUSA (www.buildbuyusa.org) promotes the value and importance of a strong manufacturing base to our economic future and the key role consumers can play. By spending our dollars on items made domestically, consumers can encourage a resurgence of well-paying manufacturing jobs in the United States. “Consumers have the power to make a difference,” said UAW International President Dennis Williams. “Our BuildBuyUSA campaign will give people the tools they need to make...

15 September, 2017

The BCTGM is proud to present the full six-minute cut of our short form documentary, “Made in America,” detailing the plight of our members at the iconic Nabisco/Mondelēz bakery in Chicago. This public television segment, produced by Front Page, will air to over 50 million TV homes across the country for one full year and we want our members, their families and all of our supporters to be the first to see it! Click here to...

10 July, 2017

What will you be doing ONE WEEK FROM TODAY on May 17? The BCTGM International will be joined by hundreds of Nabisco/Mondelēz workers, BCTGM local union members, supporters and activists for a mass demonstration outside the Mondelēz Shareholders Meeting in Lincolnshire, Ill. If you can be in the Chicago area on May 17– please visit/promote/RSVP to our Facebook Event Page for details, updates and to be alerted for the LIVE STREAM on May 17. Please sign on to our...

10 May, 2017

Last year, Nabisco/Mondelēz eliminated 600 good, middle-class jobs in Chicago in order to outsource Nabisco production to Mexico. And while workers in Mexico are paid only $1 per hour, Mondelēz CEO Irene Rosenfeld averages nearly $20 million per year. So on May 17, when company decision makers gather for the annual Mondelēz Shareholders Meeting in Lincolnshire, Ill., BCTGM Nabisco/Mondelēz workers, BCTGM local unions, supporters and activists will be there to protest the company’s failed business model...

05 May, 2017

“Today’s layoff of the first 277 employees from the Nabisco Chicago Bakery should not be seen as the end of the Union’s fight to save these American jobs, but rather the launch of an intensified effort to educate the American consumer on the transfer of this work from the hard working employees of Chicago to low wage jobs at Nabisco’s production facility in Salinas, Mexico.” - BCTGM International President David Durkee; March 23, 2016 Today, March 23rd, marks...

23 March, 2017

The AFL-CIO Executive Council has approved a new National Good Jobs campaign that will expose and challenge the corporate outsourcing of jobs by American companies, choosing Mondelēz International as its first example of greed over good. The AFL-CIO has issued the following press release: March 14, 2017 Mondelēz (Nabisco/Oreo)Will Be the First Solidarity Campaign (San Antonio, March 14, 2017) – The AFL-CIO Executive Council came out of its annual winter meeting reinvigorated and reorganized around the principle that every worker...

15 March, 2017

March 23rd marks one year since Mondelēz/Nabisco began laying off Local 300 members from the Chicago bakery and sending their jobs to Salinas, Mexico. Now, workers toiling under exploitive conditions in Mexico produce the formerly made-in-the U.S. Nabisco products that are shipped back to American consumers. The Nabisco 600 and the Check the Label campaign has gained tremendous support from activists coast to coast. In a collective act of solidarity, we are asking BCTGM members, their...

10 March, 2017

Hear from Ladonna and Michael, our sister and brother from BCTGM Local 300, who lost their jobs to outsourcing and Nabisco's corporate greed. ...

21 October, 2016

Today at the Democratic National Convention, BCTGM Local 300 member and laid off Nabisco worker Michael Smith was invited to address the DNC Labor Council on Organizing. In addition to Smith, the Council heard from Alicia Hamiel, a representative of the Fight For Fifteen movement; Ernesto Salazar, a car wash worker, and numerous political leaders united in the call for higher wages and workers' rights. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered powerful remarks to the gathering as she reminded everyone: "you...

27 July, 2016

Today at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, BCTGM Local 300 member and laid-off Nabisco worker Michael Smith spoke before the National Democratic Seniors Coordinating Council.  Part of the meeting included addresses from Members of Congress, national senior citizen leaders and top officials from the DNC about Social Security, Medicare and the importance of the senior vote in 2016. Smith was invited to address the group concerning the importance of retiree involvement in helping to change the nation's trade laws....

26 July, 2016

Today as the Democratic National Convention kicked off in Philadelphia, BCTGM Local 300 member and laid off Nabisco worker Michael Smith was meeting labor delegates,union leaders and political activists to give voice to the nation's working families negatively impacted by unfair U.S. trade laws. Smith met briefly this afternoon with U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D. Minn.). Ellison, who is a strong supporter of America's working families. The Congressman first met Smith following his testimony to the Democratic Platform Committee on June 9. Stay...

25 July, 2016