Hearthside
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler sent a pointed letter to the lead Director of the private equity company Apollo Global Management about β€œa growing list of unaddressed workers’ rights violations alleged at various Apollo-owned portfolio companies”. Apollo, one of the largest private equity companies in the world, is one of the owners of Maker’s Prideβ€”formerly Hearthside Food Solutionsβ€”a giant co-manufacturing company that makes brands for Kellogg, Hershey’s, General Mills and MondelΔ“z/Nabisco. The BCTGM has many ongoing labor disputes...

20 March, 2026

In a decision issued on September 17, Federal Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Arthur J. Amchan found numerous violations of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by Hearthside Food Solutions (since renamed Maker’s Pride) in London, Ky. during last year’s Union organizing campaign. β€œThis was one of the most egregious Union-busting campaigns Earl and I have ever experienced,” reports East-Central Region International Representative Lisa Gregory, referring to BCTGM Local 57’s retired Business Agent Earl Farris who co-led...

25 September, 2025

For Immediate Release: September 19, 2024Contact: Lisa Gregory, BCTGM International Representative, (301) 335-3722 Print this (PDF) London, Ky. β€” Eleven-year employee Ben Nolan of the Hearthside Food Solutions (HFS) bakery in London, Ky. has been illegally fired from his job for activities related to organizing a Union. Hearthside is owned by two private equity companies, Partners Group and Charlesbank. Nolan was unjustly targeted by management at the bakery when he emerged as a leader in an April 2024 Union...

19 September, 2024

On Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 22 maintenance unit workers employed at Hearthside Food Solutions (β€œHearthside”) in Michigan City, Ind. filed for an election to be represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM). The workers at the Michigan City bakery have developed their organizing campaign in solidarity with two other Hearthside facilities in McComb, Ohio and London, Ky. In recent months, the maintenance unit workers in Michigan City grew more assured...

04 September, 2024

Due to a relentless anti-union campaign waged by Hearthside Foods, 600 workers at the London, Kentucky bakery have lost their Union election. The 304-222 loss coincided with eleven more unfair labor practice (ULP) charges filed on Sunday, May 5th, adding to the nine already documented during the campaign. β€œThese newest charges are all related to the constant surveillance and intimidation the workers faced. The company issued really outrageous threats of losing their jobsβ€”even deportationβ€”and Β several workers...

09 May, 2024

On Friday April 5, 2024, workers employed at the Hearthside Food Solutions (β€œHearthside”) bakery in London, Kentucky filed for an election to be represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM).  The bakery in London, which produces baked goods for Kellogg’s, Nabisco and General Mills, employs approximately five hundred people. The BCTGM international Union has also filed federal charges against Hearthside for multiple labor law violations committed during the organizing campaign...

09 April, 2024