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โ€œSenator Elizabeth Warren recently gave a speech where she made her case for electing women Democrats to Congress saying, โ€˜If you donโ€™t have a seat at the table, youโ€™re probably on the menu.โ€™ And this is something Iโ€™ve started telling workers in organizing campaigns.โ€ โ€” John Price, BCTGM Internationalย Director of Organization [caption id="attachment_4789" align="alignright" width="288" caption="Workers at the Penford Foods plant in Seattle became fed up with the companyโ€™s elimination of benefits and contacted the BCTGM. They...

23 January, 2015

As BCTGM members and their families welcome a New Year, we can look back at 2014 as a source of great pride and optimism for our Union. ย While the BCTGM and our members certainly faced serious and difficult challenges on many fronts, we are heading into the New Year as a stronger, battle-tested Union, fully prepared to take whatever action is necessary to improve the lives of our members and bring the benefits of BCTGM...

06 January, 2015

Today, workers at the Bimbo Bakeries USA high performance facility in Elkhart, Indiana voted to become members of BCTGM Local 1 (Chicago). This is the fourth Bimbo high performance workplace the Union has organized in the last 22 months. In 2010, Bimbo Bakeries USA announced it would invest one billion dollars into upgrading and building new high performance bakeries in the United States.ย  Bimbo built four brand new high performance bakeries in Rockwall, Texas; Lehigh Valley,...

29 October, 2014

In 2006, organizers at Local 358 (Richmond, Va.) were extremely disappointed after workers at the Supervalu distribution center in Richmond Virginia, voted narrowly against joining the BCTGM. โ€œItโ€™s a punch in the gut when you lose a campaign,โ€ says International Representative Jim Condran who assisted the local during the organizing drive.ย  โ€œBut we never lost contact with those workers and the organizing committee continued to work doggedly to garner more support.โ€ Fast forward eight years, and those...

23 October, 2014

In an action taken to strengthen the BCTGM, enhance membership service and utilize resources more effectively and efficiently, Delegates to the 39th BCTGM Constitutional Convention overwhelmingly passed Resolution Number 28, which Amends Article IV, Sections 1 and 5 of the BCTGM International Constitution to Consolidate Regions One and Two and to rename the Regions. ย Click HERE to zoom in or print a PDFย of the image below. ...

01 October, 2014

A federal judge yesterday granted an injunction ordering the Kellogg Company to end its lockout of 226 ย BCTGMย Local 252G membersโ€”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

Heinenโ€™s Fine Foods is a Cleveland, Ohio based family-owned gourmet grocery store that was established in 1929 by Joe Heinen who opened a small butcher shop on the east side of the city, aiming to establish himself as the cityโ€™s purveyor of quality meats.   After his initial success, Heinen added homemade peanut butter, pickles and freshly baked donuts. By 1933, business had grown enough to include a line of produce and canned goods.   Today, the family-owned store...

02 June, 2014

I remained hopeful that this situation would resolve soon for many days, but as these days turned to weeks, and these weeks to months, I am starting to wonder why nobody is listening to my plea. It hurts to be ignored. โ€”Kara Butterfield, 15, daughter of Jeff Butterfield, Local 252G locked out Kellogg worker This morning outside the W.K. Kellogg Foundation headquarters in Battle Creek, Mich., BCTGM Local 252G members illegally locked out by Kellogg in Memphis,...

24 April, 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.ย  And while the $14 billion global snack food giant prides itself...

18 March, 2014

Memphis is historically a city that strongly embraces its workers. ย Part of that history is the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who came to support Memphis sanitation workers on strike in 1968 when he was assassinated. On January 20, 2014, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Memphis community once again displayed support and solidarity with Memphis workers. Specifically, the 220 BCTGM Local 252G members locked out by Kellogg. Hundreds of community and religious activists joined...

22 January, 2014

"There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all out kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us." ย ย -- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol As the children of locked out members of...

18 December, 2013

In the true holiday spirit of giving, Kellogg workers from Locals 50G in Omaha, Neb. and 3G in Battle Creek, Mich. are in Memphis this week delivering holiday cheer to the children and families of locked out Local 252G members. Yesterday, after an 11 hour drive from Omaha, Local 50G members personally distributed gift cards to more than 100 children of Local 252G members. Today, union members from Battle Creek arrive prepared to give out additional...

18 December, 2013

The holiday baking season is in full swing for BCTGM Local 114 members at the Fred Meyers bakery in Clackamas, Oregon where the union bakers produce hundreds of thousands of loaves, rolls, muffins and bagels daily to prepare for the holiday season. The bakery fills the shelves of more than 500 Fred Meyer stores, QFCs and other Kroger stores in five states. The bread line alone produces 30 different varieties, with most of the ingredients are sourced locally. Check...

05 December, 2013

The following letter was sent from Kellogg Company in Valls (Spain), in a show of solidarity with the locked-out workers in Memphis. [quote] Hello everyone. From the Kellogg Company in Valls (Spain), we want to give maximum support and encouragement to continue with your struggle, which is also ours. Certainly, and unfortunately, Kellogg is losing that much of what has been bragged about for many years. A company with these benefits cannot take this kind of attitude, deceiving the...

02 December, 2013

Last week, Reverend Dwight Montgomery, President of the Memphis Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), sent a letter to Kellogg CEOย John Bryant asking him to change his approach with the locked out workers of Local 252G: "This lockout is an unacceptable tactic designed to deprive families of income and medical coverage in an effort to force the changes you seek through the imposition of unwarranted economic duress on those who have served your company...

12 November, 2013