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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved new union representation rules to ensure workers can freely exercise one basic right we hold dear in this countryโ€”the right to vote. The new rules make union representation elections fairer by simplifying procedures, deferring litigation and setting shorter deadlines for hearings and filings. Currently when workers petition the NLRB for an election, it can take months and even years before they can cast a vote. Companies often use...

21 January, 2012

BCTGM Region 6 International Vice President Randy Roark reports that local unions on the West Coast are receiving phone calls from unorganized workers at a record pace. ย  Non-union workers, normally shy and fearful about getting involved in an organizing campaign, are reaching out to unions as they watch the poor getting poorer, the middle class disappearing and the rich getting richer.ย  BCTGM Secretary-Treasurer and Director of Organization David B. Durkee notes, "It is a harsh...

16 November, 2011

Bakers at the new Safeway Retail Bakeries in Burlingame and Los Gatos, California are now members ofย BCTGM Local 24 (San Francisco).ย  According to Local 24 Financial Secretary Joe Biringer, the local union contacted the bakers after the new retail outlets opened. ย The local organized the two bakeries, consisting of bakery managers, journeyman bakers, apprentice bakers, cake decorators, apprentice cake decorators, and donut fryers.ย  Local 24 requested and were granted voluntary recognition by Safeway. Financial Secretary Biringer...

01 November, 2011

BCTGM Local 9 (Seattle) has organized the bakers and cake decorators at three Kroger in-store bakeries in Kirkland and Bellevue, Washington. The successful campaigns were lead by Local 9 officers, according to Region 6 International Vice President Randy Roark.ย  The BCTGM welcomes the new Kroger bakers into our BCTGM union family!...

08 May, 2011

BCTGM Local 24 (San Francisco) has organized the journeymen bakers, the apprentice bakers, the journeymen cake decorators, the apprentice cake decorators, and the donut fryers at three Safeway in-store bakeries in Sunnyvale, Menlo Park and Santa Cruz, Calif.ย  Additionally, Local 24 has organized the mechanics, who service the delivery trucks at Roma Bakery in San Jose, Calif. The campaigns were lead by Local 24 Financial Secretary Joe Biringer and Business Agents Oscar Hernandez and Humberto Gomez, according...

08 March, 2011

BCTGM Local 125 (Oakland, Calif.) organizing efforts have been paying off!ย  Recently the local organized Safewayโ€™s in-store bakery (#2712) located at 11050 Bollinger Canyon Road in San Romon.ย  Local 125 Financial Secretary Donna Scarano credits Recording Secretary David Cheong with the successful campaign. Scarano also reports that Local 125 has organized the maintenance department at Dobake Bakeries located at 810 81st Avenue, in Oakland.ย  Local 125 already represents the bakeryโ€™s production workers, who make bread, buns...

08 February, 2011

In the June 2010 issue of the BCTGM Report, it was reported that BCTGM Local 114 (Portland, Ore.) had won an organizing election to represent 13 sanitation workers employed at the BCTGM- represented captive Safeway Bakery in Portland. According to Region 6 Vice President Randy Roark, since that victory, Local 114 has continued to โ€œclean upโ€ on the organizing front with two additional organizing successes with wholesale bakery sanitation bargaining units.ย  Local 114 has organized the sanitation...

08 January, 2011

Since Tasty Baking Company in Philadelphia was founded in 1914, workers have been without a union. That all changed in August when Tasty Baking Co.'s bakers, warehouse workers, food-safety technicians, auto mechanics, and vending drivers voted to become members of BCTGM Local 492 (Philadelphia). The company closed its old non-union North Philadelphia bakery and transferred production to a newly-built โ€œgreenโ€ facility located in the Philadelphia Naval Yard. According to the company, they took the abandoned industrial...

08 October, 2010

Like most organizing campaigns, there were a lot of ups and downs for the workers of Aliments Martel, a new subsidiary of Canada Bread in Gatineau, Quebec. When workers at the Gatineau facility approached BCTGM Local 55 (Montreal, Quebec) in 2009 about joining the Union, the workerโ€™s spirits were high. They knew that the BCTGM represented Canada Bread workers across Canada and had a long, stable relationship with the company.ย  That seemed to bode well for...

05 October, 2010

BCTGM Local 114 (Portland, Ore.) won an organizing election to represent 13 sanitation workers employed at the BCTGM represented captive Safeway Bakery in Portland. This sanitation department has never been union. The result of the election was 10 (Union Yes) to 2 no votes. Incredibly, Safeway used anti-union attorneys on their campaign and brought in two high-ranking corporate management persons from California and Oregon...

08 June, 2010

BCTGM Region Two Vice President Robert Oakley reports that Local 464 (Hershey, Pa.) has organized the grounds keepers at the new Hershey Country Club in Hummelstown, Pa. and the maintenance workers, electricians, housekeeping, cooks and wait staff at the new Hershey Villas in Hershey. Local 464 signed a majority status on authorization-for-representation cards and was granted recognition by the employer, thus avoiding an expensive and unnecessary anti-union campaign. Both of these bargaining units...

08 April, 2010

Canadian Vice President Sean Kelly reports that BCTGM Local 406 (Moncton, New Brunswick) has successfully organized the workers at Atlantic Industrial Services (AIS), which is a Division of Enviro-Systems (ESI).ย  AIS is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick.ย  ESI is one of the largest handlers of hazardous waste in Atlantic Canada providing a full range of disposal options for all hazardous and regulated wastes.ย ...

08 March, 2010

In the April 2009 organizing report, we had reported that BCTGM Local 358 (Richmond, VA) had organized more than 100 dairy workers employed at Land-O-Sun Dairy (a subsidiary of dairy giant Dean Foods) in Richmond, Va.ย  This dairy produces all varieties of fresh milk under private label brands.ย  More than 70 percent voted โ€œUnion Yesโ€ in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election and ...

08 February, 2010

BCTGM Local 85 (Sacramento, Calif.) has successfully organized the office workers employed at Bimbo Baking USA, (a division of Grupo Bimbo), in Sacramento. Bimbo Baking manufactures Arnold's, Bimbo, Boboli, Brownberry, Entenmann's, Francisco, Friehofer's, Marinela, Mrs. Baird's, Oroweat, Stroehmann's, Thomas' and Tia Rosa baking brands and is one of the largest wholesale baking companies in the United States. Local 85 Financial Secretary Marty Zimmerman had led this organizing effort. Congratulations to Local 85...

08 January, 2010

When a production plant that employs BCTGM members closes its doors, does the local just say farewell to those workers? According to BCTGM Region 1 Vice President Art Montminy maintaining support of such members can pay off. Montminy says that an example of such dedication was recently exemplified by Local 102 (New York, NY). In January, the Angonoa Bread Sticks production bakery in College ...

08 November, 2009