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Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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BCTGM Region Six International Vice President Randy Roark is pleased to report that BCTGM Local 24 (San Francisco) has successfully organized the new Caravan Baking Company production facility in Union City, California.  The bargaining unit will include all production, wrapping, shipping and receiving, maintenance and sanitation departments. The new bakery already employs 75 bakers who produce Oroweat Sandwich Thins for Bimbo Baking Company.  Local 24 ...

08 December, 2009

Pass the BCTGM-made milk to enjoy with your BCTGM-made cookies or cereal. On March 17, more than 100 workers at Land-O-Sun Dairy in Richmond, Va. voted to join BCTGM Local 358 (Richmond). Land-O-Sun Dairy, a subsidiary of dairy giant Dean Foods, produces all varieties of fresh milk under private label brands. Land-O-Sun Dairy, which was acquired by Dean Foods in 1998, has dairies in several other states, including Tennessee, Georgia,...

08 April, 2009

More than 300 workers at the Dannon yogurt plant in Minster, Ohio became members of the BCTGM following a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election on December 6, 2007, when an overwhelming majority voted to join the BCTGM. The Dannon workers first reached out to the BCTGM through the union's online organizing contact form in early January. A group of workers...

08 January, 2008

International Vice President Robert Oakley reports the successful conclusion to an organizing campaign at the Kraft-Nabisco warehouse in Richmond, Va. and the depot in Chesapeake, Va. The campaign was conducted by Local 358 ( Richmond, VA) and the International Union.  The campaign focused on the driver sales employees. Oakley notes that Local 358 has made a concentrated effort to focus more time and effort in assisting non-union workers and their families, thereby growing their local union. The campaign,...

09 January, 2006