Corporate Greed
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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The AFL-CIO released its annual Executive Paywatch report today, detailing how the gap between CEO and worker pay continues to grow. “Our economy works best when consumers have money to spend. That means raising wages for workers and reining in out of control executive pay. This year’s report is a stark reminder that working people must use our collective voice to form bigger, stronger unions and rewrite the economic rules once and for all.” —AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer...

25 June, 2019

The imbalance in our economy between the pay of CEOs and working people is worsening. In 2017, CEO pay at S&P 500 Index companies increased 6.4% to a total of $13.94 million. In contrast, production and nonsupervisory workers received a paltry 2.6% raise, earning on average just $38,613—a CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 361 to 1. Among the top 20 highest paid CEO's:  #17: Mondelez CEO Dirk Van De Put who made a shocking $42,442,924 in 2017....

22 May, 2018

As a result of the federal tax cut, Disney promised that its employees would get $1,000 bonuses. Disney offered the bonuses to most of its employees with no conditions. But for 41,000 union members in Anaheim, California and Orlando, Florida, Disney is requiring them to agree to the company's contract proposals in order to get the bonus. More than 100 BCTGM Local 83 (Buena Park, Calif.) members are candy production workers at the Disneyland park in...

25 March, 2018

An impending U.S. Supreme Court decision threatens the right of public employees to union representation and collective bargaining, and it is a decision that will “hit every public-sector worker across this country,” says Corey Upchurch, a school bus driver for special needs children in Washington D.C. “Just imagine if money is taken off your table, or you’re not able to send your child to college or you not able to retire because you don’t have a...

27 February, 2018

Today on Capitol Hill, BCTGM Local 300 (Chicago) member and former Nabisco/Mondelez worker Michael Smith explained why the Republican tax plan will hurt American workers: My name is Michael J. Smith. I am here to tell you why the tax bill is a JOB KILLER. Up until March of 2016, I was employed at the Nabisco bakery in Chicago. I had worked there nearly five years and am unemployed today because Nabisco/Mondelēz sent my job and the jobs...

03 November, 2017

For BCTGM members who have dedicated their working lives to hard and physically demanding jobs, a defined benefit pension plan is key to the foundation for a financially secure and dignified retirement. This is why the BCTGM places the highest priority on preserving and strengthening our members’ pensions. Whether it is the highly-respected multi-employer B&C Pension Fund, covering nearly 110,000 active and retired members and which has paid out more than $12.5 billion in benefits since...

06 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

Avoiding corporate income taxes is one way CEOs boost their companies’ profits and thereby increase their own pay. This corporate tax avoidance reduces the amount of money that is available for public goods like roads and schools. As a result, our economy increasingly has become out of balance. BCTGM Local 300 member and laid off Nabisco/Mondelēz worker is highlighted on the AFL-CIO's 2017 PayWatch site as an example of the human cost of offshoring jobs. Mondelēz International,...

09 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

“Irene has made over $20 million dollars a year, for the last nine years. That is roughly 300 times that of the average Mondelez employee.” “For a CEO to make that much and refuse to leave our jobs in Chicago, to send them to Mexico, that’s a slap in our face. Irene Rosenfeld – you should be ashamed!” In the second video in the BCTGM’s “Nabisco 600” series, Chicago Mondelez bakery workers highlight the exorbitant corporate greed...

12 July, 2016

“It was a lonely, sad ride home and a day I will never forget," recalls Michael Smith, one of the “Nabisco 600” laid off on March 23 from the Southside Chicago Mondelēz bakery.  "At 59 years of age, I basically have to learn how to reinvent myself in today’s job market.”  Smith was a spokesperson for the “Nabisco 600” during a media teleconference launching the AFL-CIO's PayWatch 2016. Mondelez International is highlighted on the Executive PayWatch website...

17 May, 2016

KENSINGTON, Md. - Today, the BCTGM - which represents nearly 4,000 members at Mondelēz International, maker of Nabisco snack products - announced in response to the layoff of the first 277 workers at the Southside Nabisco Chicago Bakery, an escalation in its efforts to promote its “Check the Label” campaign, encouraging American consumers to reject Nabisco products made in Mexico and instead, buy those that are produced in America in support of American jobs. BCTGM will...

23 March, 2016

BCTGM members working at Nabisco plants throughout the U.S. take great pride in producing the iconic products that have been a part of millions of Americans' lives for more than 50 years. Today the BCTGM has launched a public education campaign encouraging Americans to "Check the Label" to support American jobs by ensuring their favorite Nabisco products are produced in America before purchasing. Through a simple label check, together we can send a powerful message in support...

08 March, 2016

America’s economy has swung out of balance. It’s 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 that’s been everywhere but ordinary peoples’ 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, and now there is a Supreme Court...

06 January, 2016

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...

06 January, 2016