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Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote this week on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and end Medicaid as we know it. This mean-spirited bill, sponsored by Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, would radically change our health care system, leading to unaffordable care for millions of Americans. This bill would drastically cut coverage for seniors, children, veterans, and people with disabilities. Medicaid, the largest...

25 September, 2017

Calling the boycott of Nabisco/Mondelฤ“z products made in Mexico, โ€œvital to saving good, middle-class American jobs,โ€ BCTGM International President David Durkee urged U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) to call on Nabisco/Mondelฤ“z to support American workers and bring jobs back to the U.S. Durkee, together with BCTGM International Secretary-Treasurer Steve Bertelli and Assistant to the President Harry Kaiser, recently met with the two Congressional leaders in Pelosiโ€™s Capitol Hill...

14 September, 2017

BCTGM International President David Durkee released the following statement in response to the Senate Democratsโ€™ unveiling of the โ€œBetter Deal on Trade and Jobsโ€ economic plan. โ€œThe BCTGM commends the leadership of Senator Schumer and the Senate Democrats for crafting the โ€œBetter Dealโ€ economic blueprint for Americaโ€™s workers with trade and jobs at its core. The BCTGM has long believed that Congress needs to take bold and comprehensive action to revitalize Americaโ€™s middle class. Unfair trade agreements...

03 August, 2017

In the early hours of this morning, Senate Republicans held a dramatic vote on their last ditch effort to to undo the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and gut Medicaid.ย The so-called โ€œSkinny Repealโ€ would have repealed the ACAโ€™s individual mandate and suspended the employer mandate for nine years, disrupting insurance markets and eliminating access to health care for 16 million Americans. Republican Senators Susan Collins (ME), Lisa Murkowski (AK) and John McCain (AZ) joined all 48 Democrats...

28 July, 2017

BCTGM International staff joined hundreds of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and AFSCME members and Democratic members of Congress outside the U.S. Capitol to rally in opposition to Republicansโ€™ Trumpcare bill and budget proposal which would strip funding from students, teachers, nurses and health workers. The rally was organized by the AFT and led by AFT President Randiย Weingarten.ย  Congressional speakers denounced the proposed budget cuts, which would fall heavily on schools and other vital social services....

20 July, 2017

Approximatelyย 87 percent of workersย receive no paid family leave, a problem that BCTGM and other advocates for working families have been pushing elected officials to address for years. The issue finally emerged as a policy focus in last yearโ€™s presidential elections. In a July 10ย letter to the president, more than 100 congressional Democrats urged President Donald Trump to supportย legislationย providing working families with 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave โ€œthat is sustainable, affordable, and inclusive.โ€ They...

18 July, 2017