The AFL-CIO has compiled an extensive state-by-state list of resources for workers impacted by the pandemic. The website separates resources under the following categories: Emergency Paid Leave; Health Insurance; Housing and Food Assistance; and Wages and Benefits. Please click here to visit the site and share with anyone impacted by COVID-19. ...
Many BCTGM members have worked throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to provide foods and snacks for North American families, while others have had hours reduced or had their plant temporarily closed. As states make plans for re-opening the economy, officials must remember that workers who have risked exposure to a deadly disease during this pandemic will never return to the same, old โnormalโ.ย ย ย The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH), has released a report...
Congress is currently working on the next Coronavirus Emergency Relief legislation. Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have pledged to include a comprehensive and effective multiemployer pension relief plan that will provide long-term solvency for pension plans, such as the B&C Plan, with no benefit cuts for beneficiaries. TAKE ACTION NOW! CALL 844-551-6921 Call your U.S. Senators today and tell them to include multiemployer pension relief in the next stimulus and recovery legislation! Democratic...
H.R. 6559 - The COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020 would require OSHA to issue a standard to protect essential workers like BCTGM members - on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to send a letter to Congress urging their immediate support for H.R. 6559: The COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020. BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton sent this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives to urge passage of H.R....
A complete and accurate count in the 2020 census is vital to working families in every corner of our country. This information, required every 10 years by the Constitution, is used for important decision-making that affects working peopleโnot only at the federal level, but also at the state and local levels of government. It is the basis for decisions on reapportionment of seats in the U.S. Congress, and in state and local legislative districts. Census data...
The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding President Trumpโs anticipated remarks later today about โtaking care of seniors.โ โWe are on the eve of the May 1 start of Older Americans Month and seniors are more at risk for their health and economic security than they have been in decades.โThe CDCโs national shelter in place recommendations expire today, putting millions of seniors further at risk. We...
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka sent this video to thank all BCTGM members for the work that you are doing to help America get through the COVID-19 crisis. https://www.facebook.com/BCTGM/videos/720403608791141/ ...
To the BCTGM members in Ohio and throughout America โ Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) sends this special video on this Workersโ Memorial Day 2020. โYour work is essential. All work has dignity. We thank you, of course, but we need your workplace to be safe and we need your employers and the Trump administration to stand up and do thatโฆ.and we need to get pandemic pay to all the hourly workers who are working so hard and putting...
This year, Workers Memorial Day is a bit different than in previous years. We are not gathered together in person at union halls, government buildings, worksites or memorials, but we are gathered together as a community to remember our brothers and sisters who have lost their lives, and to fight for safe workplaces and good jobs for all workers. At the forefront of this Workers Memorial Day is the COVID-19 pandemicโa major crisis for working...
The COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act (H.R. 6559) would require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard that establishes a legal obligation for all workplaces to implement comprehensive infectious disease exposure control plans to keep workers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the CDC issued guidance to protect workers, the guidance is not binding and OSHA currently has no enforceable standard to protect workers from airborne infectious diseases, leaving the...
Now is Time to Act to Strengthen Both Systems The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the Trustees reports issued today on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds: โSocial Security remains strong and solvent with enough money to cover all payouts and expenses until 2035, and the Medicare Trust Fund for hospital care has sufficient funds to cover its obligations until 2026. The projections for both...
Today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka unveiled the safety conditions working people are demanding before the economy is reopened. โWe must do what the federal government has refused to: protect Americaโs workers. We should not be focusing on when we can reopen the economy but rather on how we should reopen it to ensure the health and safety of working people.โ- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Safety First: Working Peopleโs Plan for Reopening the Economy the Right Way: Workers...
On April 16, 2020, the General Executive Board (GEB) unanimously elected David Woods to serve as BCTGM International Secretary-Treasurer. On December 6, 2019, the General Executive Board elected Woods as the Southern Region International Vice President. Woods became a member of the BCTGM Local 165G (Knoxville, Tenn.) in August 1989 when he went to work at White Lilly Foods Co. as a maintenance mechanic. Woods served as the Principle Officer of Local 165G until...
For Local 334 members in Portland, Maine, job pride stems from adhering to a rich tradition of baking large pots of beans in brick ovens to provide Americans with a wholesome and much loved food: baked beans. Lately, that pride has swelled as workers have worked around the clock to meet the growing national demand for B&M brick-oven beans to fill the pantries of Americans who are staying at home during the Coronavirus quarantine. ...
On April 16, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) General Executive Board unanimously elected Anthony Shelton as International President, to fulfil the term of International President David B. Durkee who passed away on March 30. Shelton served as BCTGM International Secretary-Treasurer since December 6, 2019 when he was elected to that position by the BCTGM General Executive Board. Shelton has been a member of the Union since 1973 when he became a...