Mondelez
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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“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

The AFL-CIO Executive Council has approved a new National Good Jobs campaign that will expose and challenge the corporate outsourcing of jobs by American companies, choosing Mondelēz International as its first example of greed over good. The AFL-CIO has issued the following press release: March 14, 2017 Mondelēz (Nabisco/Oreo)Will Be the First Solidarity Campaign (San Antonio, March 14, 2017) – The AFL-CIO Executive Council came out of its annual winter meeting reinvigorated and reorganized around the principle that every worker...

15 March, 2017

March 23rd marks one year since Mondelēz/Nabisco began laying off Local 300 members from the Chicago bakery and sending their jobs to Salinas, Mexico. Now, workers toiling under exploitive conditions in Mexico produce the formerly made-in-the U.S. Nabisco products that are shipped back to American consumers. The Nabisco 600 and the Check the Label campaign has gained tremendous support from activists coast to coast. In a collective act of solidarity, we are asking BCTGM members, their...

10 March, 2017

“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

The Chicago Tribune published this joint commentary by BCTGM International President David B. Durkee and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on March 29.  Oreos are incredibly popular, one of America's top guilty pleasures. But we soon might not be able to stomach them, if the iconic cookies don't sustain good jobs in the United States. As part of the relentless killing of American manufacturing, Nabisco plans to cut in half the workforce at its largest domestic bakery, in Chicago,...

29 March, 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

In July 2015, Nabisco announced it had chosen to invest an additional $130 million in its new $400 million plant in Salinas, Mexico, instead of investing that money in its iconic plant in Chicago. As a result, 600 workers in Chicago could lose their jobs and an entire South Side community could be devastated. Watch and share this video with everyone you know! Join the fight to save American Jobs! TAKE ACTION! Click here to sign our...

19 February, 2016

Generations of BCTGM Local 300 families from this Southside Chicago community have produced Nabisco products for more than five decades. Sign this petition to Mondelēz/Nabisco CEO urging her to stop outsourcing American jobs to Mexico: http://bit.ly/1QGFVdA...

28 January, 2016

In response to Mondelēz International’s ongoing violations of its Collective Bargaining Agreement, BCTGM Local 300 – which represents nearly 1,000 members at the Mondelēz Nabisco Bakery located at 7300 Kedzie Avenue in Chicago – filed for injunctive relief requesting court-compelled arbitration regarding these violations. The complaint particularly calls for arbitration regarding the company’s continued use of non-union employees in bargaining unit positions instead of hiring union employees into open positions, as required under the Collective...

22 January, 2016

International Union of Food Workers Announces Solidarity in Support of United Effort to Protect Worker Rights KENSINGTON, Md., January 7, 2015 –The International Union of Food Workers (IUF) and its affiliates, representing 2.5 million workers in 126 countries, have affirmed their solidarity with Mondelēz International workers across the globe. IUF affiliates represent the vast majority of Mondelēz manufacturing employees in over 30 countries from Alexandria, Egypt to Chicago, Illinois; and since 1920, the organization has been...

07 January, 2016

Shown below is the full text of a letter International President David Durkee sent to President Obama concerning the July 29 announcement by Mondelēz International that it intends to move hundreds of union production jobs from the historic BCTGM-represented Chicago Nabisco Bakery to the company’s low-wage facility in Mexico. This contemptible move by this greedy multi-national company epitomizes all that is wrong with corporate America and U.S. trade policy. (Click on either image below to download a PDF.)   *This letter was also published in...

01 September, 2015

On Monday, August 24, NPR Chicago broadcast a special story detailing the recent announcement by Mondelēz International that it is shipping 600 union jobs — half the plant’s workforce — to Mexico. The program includes interviews with BCTGM Local 300 members at the Chicago Bakery. The report also includes information on how the city worked with Mondelēz  the last time the company threatened to move production outside of the U.S. by providing $300 million in tax breaks to complete infrastructure work at...

28 August, 2015

The BCTGM International was informed today by Mondelēz that the company had chosen to spend $130 million in new investment at its Salinas, Mexico plant, rather than at the historic Chicago facility, represented by BCTGM Local 300. As part of this investment, Mondelēz will install four new lines at its Mexico plant, replacing nine production lines at its historic Chicago facility, where approximately 1,000 workers are represented by BCTGM Local 300. The Chicago plant, which dates to...

29 July, 2015