BCTGM Local 3 (Long Island City, NY) has successfully organized Allan Baking Company, in Brooklyn, New York. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election was won by a 3:1 margin. Working on this campaign was Local 3 Organizer Manny Jiminez. The BCTGM welcomes the bakers of Allan's into our Union family!...
BCTGM Local 55 ( St. Leonard, Quebec) was looking to broaden their scope of organizing targets. After working on several organizing targets, the workers at Meditron Pharmaceutical Supplies, located in Terrebonne, Quebec, expressed a sincere interest in obtaining representation rights and a voice in their workplace. The International Union Staff and Local 55 organized the workers into committees, an organizing campaign ensued and ended in certification. Congratulations to our 83 new members at Meditron and to Local...
The San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles areas are world renown for their famous chocolates. The vast volume of the very best chocolates are manufactured by BCTGM members at companies like Ghirardelli and See’s Chocolate companies. BCTGM Local 125 ( Oakland, Calif.) has added yet another chocolate company to that list by organizing Shaw's Chocolates located in Oakland, Calif. The organizing campaign was headed up by Business Agent & Organizer Guy Jacobo. International Representatives Marco Mendoza...
If you thought talented cake decorators were a thing of the past, you should visit your local union retail bakery of your area grocery store. In a union environment, the decorators are highly skilled bakers who are in demand by employers. In Oregon, the cake decorators employed by three retail stores have recently been organized by BCTGM Local 114 ( Portland). The bakeries are the Albertson's in-store bakery #518 in Wilsonville; the Fred Meyer in-store bakery in...