AFL-CIO Calls for Apollo to Address Serious Concerns

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler sent a pointed letter to the lead Director of the private equity company Apollo Global Management about “a growing list of unaddressed workers’ rights violations alleged at various Apollo-owned portfolio companies”. Apollo, one of the largest private equity companies in the world, is one of the owners of Maker’s Pride—formerly Hearthside Food Solutions—a giant co-manufacturing company that makes brands for Kellogg, Hershey’s, General Mills and Mondelēz/Nabisco. The BCTGM has many ongoing labor disputes...