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A week after releasing the most pro-union statement from a president in decades, President Biden issued a statement of administration policy that strongly supports the passage of the PRO Act. The administration recognizes that the right to organize a union is a fundamental building block of the American Dream. Passing the PRO Act would strengthen and expand working peopleโ€™s ability to form and join unions. In a press release, the administration noted that unions give...

09 March, 2021

"America was not built by Wall Street. It was built by the middle class, and unions built the middle class. Unions put power in the hands of workers. They give workers a stronger voice to increase wages, improve the quality of jobs and protect job security, protect against racial and all other forms of discrimination and sexual harassment, and protect workersโ€™ health, safety, and benefits in the workplace. Unions lift up workers, both union and...

08 March, 2021

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: โ€œAmerica can only build back better if unions are doing the building.โ€ Today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and leaders from construction and manufacturing unions met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss actions the administration can take to create good-paying union jobs, highlighting the need to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, COVID-19 relief and an infrastructure package. After the meeting,...

17 February, 2021

On February 4, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) along with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Robert C. โ€œBobbyโ€ Scott (VA-03), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, comprehensive labor legislation to protect workersโ€™ right to stand together and bargain for fairer wages, better...

05 February, 2021

President Biden has indicated he will seek to build worker power by strengthening unions. On election day eve, campaigning in western Pennsylvania, he promised to be โ€œthe most pro-union president youโ€™ve ever seenโ€. In his campaign platform, Biden endorsed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (Pro Act) which would make it easier for unions to organize workers. Americaโ€™s labor laws are no longer an effective. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act will provide...

22 January, 2021

In the midst of a pandemic and in the face of an unrelenting, anti-union campaign, workers at Blueโ€™s City Brewing Company in Memphis, Tenn. stood strong in solidarity and voted to have a voice in their workplace with BCTGM Local 149 (Memphis). There are currently 550 workers employed at the plant with several hundred additional workers expected to join the workforce as the company plans to expand the facility. โ€œFaith without hard work is nothing. With the...

10 December, 2020

To Daniel Ramos, a machine operator at the Danone North America plant in Bridgeton, N.J., a vote to become a member of the BCTGM was a decision he made based on worker dignity. โ€œI will vote for the union because we deserve dignity and respect. We need to make sure our voices are heard. We have the power of our voice. I feel positive โ€“ we will win this union election because it is what is...

22 October, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has amplified many workers' desires for workplace protections โ€” both against losing their jobs and against the virus. Faced with unsafe working conditions or precarious employment, workers are turning to the BCTGM for help. "Employers may or may not provide the safety tools that workers need. And yet workers know that if they speak up and refuse to work without the proper safety measures, they'll be fired."BCTGM International Director of Organization John Price. Under...

17 September, 2020

In late February, more than 150 workers at Danone North Americaโ€™s yogurt and plant-based powder facility in DuBois, Pa. voted overwhelmingly to join BCTGM Local 19 (Cleveland, Ohio). France-based Danone is one of the largest food & beverage companies in the world. Danoneโ€™s largest subsidiary in the United States is Dannon Yogurt, producer of Dannon, Oikos, Danimals, Activia, and YoCream. The BCTGM represents workers at Dannon facilities in Minster, Ohio and West Jordan, Utah. ...

03 March, 2020

The BCTGM joins with the AFL-CIO and the entire labor movement in commending the Democrat-controlled U.S. House for taking the most significant step toward strengthening labor laws in the United States in more than 85 years. Americaโ€™s labor laws are no longer an effective means for working people to have our voices heard. The long overdue PRO Act will provide significant protections for workers exercising their legal right to form a union, a...

07 February, 2020

Working-class and middle-class families in the United States deserve income security and should be able to organize their co-workers to demand living wages and healthy working conditions. In a time when the richest Americansโ€™ wealth growth has increased by more than 200% while wages remain stagnant for the rest of us, we need our lawmakers to protect workersโ€™ rights. Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor advanced the Protecting the Right to...

03 February, 2020

(Below article is excerpted from a Dec. 18 article by NW Labor Press) Workers who make bread for Grand Central Bakery in Portland, Ore. voted to join BCTGM Local 114 on December 12 in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board. The 29-to-9 vote affirmed what the workers had told management three weeks earlier: Local 114 has the support of a majority of the workers at the companyโ€™s wholesale bakery. Workers who make bread...

19 December, 2019

In early October, maintenance workers at the new Purina pet food plant in Hartwell, Ga. voted to join BCTGM Local 42 (Atlanta). This organizing win followed the successful election of quality control workers at the Fairburn, Ga. pet food facility, also represented by Local 42. The Hartwell plant opened in early 2018 as a distribution center while the production facility was being built. In May 2018, workers at the new plant reached out to the BCTGM...

08 November, 2019

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act has passed a major milestone and was voted out of committee. Now, itโ€™s poised for a vote on the floor of the U.S. House. But the fight isnโ€™t over. We need members of Congress to keep up the momentum to get the PRO Act passed. Help us keep up the pressure: Please add your voice and ask your representative to become a co-sponsor of H.R....

16 October, 2019