Solidarity
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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In a sign of solidarity, Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders will join BCTGM Local 100G members and supporters in an informational picket outside the Penford Products factory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, September 4th. Union members at the plant have been fighting for a fair new contract with Ingredion, Inc. which purchased the facility this spring. Sanders is expected to join Local 100G members, labor supporters and community leaders outside the Penford plant at approximately...

03 September, 2015

On Friday, August 14, more than 100 union members, family members and community supporters of BCTGM Local 100G members gathered for an informational picket and rally outside the Ingredion plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The collective bargaining agreement covering approximately 160 union members at the plant expired on August 1. During contract negotiations, Ingredion negotiators proposed more than 120 concessionary changes to the collective bargaining agreement. The BCTGM has filed Unfair Labor Practice charges with the...

17 August, 2015

A series of videos were launched today to tell the story of the actions Kellogg is taking against its workers around the globe. While the CEO of The Kellogg Company, John Bryant, gets a pay raise of $8 million and investors get rich with increasing dividend payments and share buybacks, thousands of Kellogg employees and the communities they live in are left devastated and angry.ย  And while the $14 billion global snack food giant prides itself...

18 March, 2014

โ€œThe opposition from employers and their strong political representatives seems sharp and constant, and in the face of these, it is our declared purpose to maintain our unity and solidarity.โ€ ย  โ€“ From the Declaration of Principles, BCTGM Constitution   Looking at these words from the BCTGMโ€™s Declaration of Principles, it is as if those leaders who wrote our Constitution knew exactly what our Union has been up against for the past four years and how we have...

13 March, 2014

The NFL PLayers Association today sent a letter to Kellogg CEO John Bryant backing up the locked out workers in Memphis. "The NFLPA is well aware of the impact on workers and their families when an employer locks out its workers," writes DeMaurice Smith, Executive Director of the NFLPA (NFL Players Association). "The NFLPA calls on you to immediately end the Memphis lockout and allow these hard-working men and women to resume their jobs so that...

20 February, 2014

Dwight Montgomery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), Memphis Chapter, has written letters to three elected officials asking them to assist in ending the lockout of Memphis area Kellogg workers once and for all. โ€œThis community is outraged by this lockout and as every day passes more and more of our Memphis area citizens begin to realize and understand that this community deserves as much respect for what they have done for the company...

17 January, 2014

Press Advisory January 17, 2014 Kensington, MD International President of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union to speak at January 20th Martin Luther King event in Memphis David B. Durkee, International President of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) headquartered in Kensington, Md., is the invited Special Guest at a Dr. Martin Luther King celebration in Memphis, Tenn. on January 20. The service commemorating Dr. Kingโ€™s legacy will begin at 2:00...

17 January, 2014

Please join us on MONDAY, JANUARY 20th in supporting Locked-Out Kellogg Workers at the annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration in Memphis Tennessee. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10:00 A.M. The 29th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King National Holiday Parade, sponsored by the Commission on Religion and Racism (CORR) BCTGM International President David Durkee will march in the parade with a large group of locked out BCTGM Kellogg workers from Memphis. WHERE? Parade begins at the slave auction...

14 January, 2014

[caption id="attachment_3926" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Local 3G Pres. Trevor Bidelman (right) and member Bryon Leche (left) helped distribute the holiday hams and gifts to the Memphis Kellogg families."] [/caption] The holiday season embodies the spirit of giving and is a time to reflect andย celebrate on all of which we are thankful. But what if you are the child or family member of a locked out Kellogg worker in Memphis, Tenn.? Well, then you have union brothers and sisters...

20 December, 2013

The following letter was sent from Kellogg Company in Valls (Spain), in a show of solidarity with the locked-out workers in Memphis. [quote] Hello everyone. From the Kellogg Company in Valls (Spain), we want to give maximum support and encouragement to continue with your struggle, which is also ours. Certainly, and unfortunately, Kellogg is losing that much of what has been bragged about for many years. A company with these benefits cannot take this kind of attitude, deceiving the...

02 December, 2013