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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 record is clear, convincing and indisputable. For more than two decades, “free trade” agreements have had a disastrous impact on American and Canadian working families and devastated communities throughout North America. The BCTGM and our members know firsthand the hardship that results when multinational corporations, Wall Street and their political allies in Washington, D.C. team up to enact “free trade” agreements. In the last 20 years, many thousands of our BCTGM Brothers and Sisters have...

12 March, 2015

Republican leaders in Congress and the Obama Administration have declared that trade is a potential area of compromise this year and working people should be concerned.  New trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are being negotiated in the same failed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) model. The negotiations are focused on padding corporate profits not increasing workers’ paychecks. Before any trade deal comes to a vote, the administration will ask Congress to pass...

26 February, 2015

FACT: In January 2014, 13 states raised their minimum wage; since then these states added more jobs and have lower unemployment rates than the 36 states that did not raise the minimum wage. FACT: The U.S. Government could save $7 billion dollars if companies just paid employees a higher minimum wage.* FACT: Federal minimum wage is $7.25 – and some states actually have a lower state wage of $6.25 an hour. How can anyone, alone or with a family, survive on minimum wage? FACT: They can’t. But together we are...

21 October, 2014

A federal judge yesterday granted an injunction ordering the Kellogg Company to end its lockout of 226  BCTGM Local 252G members—at its Memphis cereal plant and reinstate them to their jobs within five days. Judge Samuel H. Mays, of the Western District of Tennessee, also ordered Kellogg to bargain with the union in good faith; offer reinstatement to every worker to their former or equivalent positions; re-establish the same terms and conditions of employment prior to the...

31 July, 2014

A series of videos were launched today to tell the story of the actions Kellogg is taking against its workers around the globe. While the CEO of The Kellogg Company, John Bryant, gets a pay raise of $8 million and investors get rich with increasing dividend payments and share buybacks, thousands of Kellogg employees and the communities they live in are left devastated and angry.  And while the $14 billion global snack food giant prides itself...

18 March, 2014

Five powerful and highly-respected United States Senators have asked the Kellogg Company to “act swiftly to find a fair agreement” and end its nearly five-month lockout of more than 220 workers at its Memphis, Tenn. cereal production facility. In a March 6 letter to Kellogg CEO John Bryant, Senators Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Robert Casey, Jr. (Pa.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Robert Menendez (N.J.) and Jeff Merkley (Ore.), reflected on the dedication of Kellogg workers. “Many of these hardworking...

07 March, 2014

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has joined the growing number of national and international organizations urging the Kellogg Company to end its four-month old lockout of more than 220 BCTGM Local 252G members at its Memphis, Tenn. plant. In the letter to Kellogg’s CEO John Bryant, CBC Chair Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio), writes: “Many of the affected workers are second and third generation employees from predominately minority communities, averaging more than 20 years of service to...

04 March, 2014

The NFL PLayers Association today sent a letter to Kellogg CEO John Bryant backing up the locked out workers in Memphis. "The NFLPA is well aware of the impact on workers and their families when an employer locks out its workers," writes DeMaurice Smith, Executive Director of the NFLPA (NFL Players Association). "The NFLPA calls on you to immediately end the Memphis lockout and allow these hard-working men and women to resume their jobs so that...

20 February, 2014

Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCollum wrote to Kellogg's CEO John Bryant on February 19 asking him to "please honor the legacy of the company by ending this lockout and seeking a mutually agreeable resolution of this dispute that respects the hard work of employees." "The Kellogg plan to convert full-time jobs to a casual or part-time workforce will likely reduce pay and benefits drastically for most workers, which will have a negative impact on families as well...

19 February, 2014

SOUTH MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) - Standing up for future employees, a labor dispute between hundreds of Kellogg's workers in Memphis drags on into its fourth month. There are two sticking points on their contract and workers say they refuse to back down. Even though, at the low end workers make around $28 an hour, they say it's not about the salaries. It's about the company trying to break a contract, which they say will significantly affect future workers...

18 February, 2014

The continued inaction by the Kellogg Company on the lockout of more than 220 workers at its Memphis, Tenn. cereal plant has drawn the attention of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC).  The Congressional Progressive Caucus consists of 75 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from around the country, and is the largest caucus within the House Democratic Caucus. In a letter on behalf of the CPC  to Kellogg Company CEO John Bryant, the Co-Chairs of...

06 February, 2014

After weeks of discussion and preparation, a community wide social justice organization comprised of a wide cross section of area and national organizations has been formally announced in Memphis. The community coalition known as The Coalition for the Organizational Protection of People and Equal Rights (COPPER) was formally launched at a meeting last week in Memphis.  Bishop E. Lynn Brown, a spokesperson for the organization, said that the lockout of workers at the Memphis Kellogg...

04 February, 2014

For Immediate Release: January 28 BAKERY, CONFECTIONERY, TOBACCO WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, Kensington, Md. National Civil Rights Organization Calls on Kellogg to End Memphis Lockout The fight to return locked out Kellogg’s workers to their jobs in Memphis, Tenn. continues to escalate with increased support from national politicians, religious leaders and civil rights organizations. In a January 23 letter to Kellogg CEO John Bryant, the Memphis Chapter President of the National Action Network (NAN), Gregory Grant, advised, “…if by February...

28 January, 2014

Last week, Gregory Grant, President of the Memphis Chapter National Action Network (NAN) sent a strong message to Kellogg's CEO John Brant with the letter below. "To that end, we along with other social justice groups strongly urge the City of Memphis to revisit and recall any and all tax incentives, rebates, pilots and provide no further corporate assistance until this lock-out has ended and all affected 226 employees are restored and made whole...

26 January, 2014