BCTGM in the Biscuit Industry

The BCTGM represents over 10,000 workers in the biscuit industry throughout North America. In the United States, BCTGM members can be found working the lines at all the major biscuit companies, including Nabisco, Keebler, Bake-Line, Ralcorp, and Parmalat. In Canada, the BCTGM represents workers at the two premier cookie and cracker companies, Christie Brown & Company, and Dare Foods.

The companies where there is a high level of BCTGM unionization are among the most successful food companies in the world. Nabisco, recently acquired by food giant Kraft Foods, and Keebler, a subsidiary of Kellogg's, are both internationally recognized for their quality and craftsmanship. Both companies are heavily organized by the BCTGM. In fact, the BCTGM represents all the Nabisco plants in the United States.

BCTGM-represented biscuit workers enjoy numerous benefits that non-union workers, working within the same industry, must do without. Some of these benefits include a defined benefit pension plan, extensive life insurance, high wages, vacation time, health benefits, dental and optical services, and accident and sickness benefits.

These benefits provide BCTGM members working in the biscuit industry with a healthy salary, not poverty wages; a guaranteed pension instead of an unreliable 401k plan; protection against sickness or accidents instead of being fired; and extensive health insurance for members and their families instead of the constant worry uninsured or poorly insured workers must deal with daily.