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Avoiding corporate income taxes is one way CEOs boost their companies’ profits and thereby increase their own pay. This corporate tax avoidance reduces the amount of money that is available for public goods like roads and schools. As a result, our economy increasingly has become out of balance. BCTGM Local 300 member and laid off Nabisco/Mondelēz worker is highlighted on the AFL-CIO's 2017 PayWatch site as an example of the human cost of offshoring jobs. Mondelēz International,...

09 May, 2017

Last year, Nabisco/Mondelēz eliminated 600 good, middle-class jobs in Chicago in order to outsource Nabisco production to Mexico. And while workers in Mexico are paid only $1 per hour, Mondelēz CEO Irene Rosenfeld averages nearly $20 million per year. So on May 17, when company decision makers gather for the annual Mondelēz Shareholders Meeting in Lincolnshire, Ill., BCTGM Nabisco/Mondelēz workers, BCTGM local unions, supporters and activists will be there to protest the company’s failed business model...

05 May, 2017

1 in 4: The number of Americans with pre-existing conditions who could suffer if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. Today, the vast majority of House Republicans voted to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which should be expanded, not discarded. The BCTGM joins with the AFL-CIO and the entire labor movement in our call to Congress to create a health care system that works for working people. What You Need to Know: The Republican health care plan doubles down on...

04 May, 2017

On May 1, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) sent a letter to President Donald Trump outlining a four-point plan for securing the best deal for American workers as the administration prepares to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Brown, a true friend of labor and working families, has strongly opposed unfair trade deals for many years. Brown, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over trade deals, has been in close...

02 May, 2017

Together with the Mother Jones Museum and the Mother Jones Heritage Project, BCTGM Local 4 (St. Louis) participated in a special 180th Birthday celebration for the legendary Mother Jones. Retired BCTGM International Vice President Jeanne Graham, a life-long admirer of the legendary Mother Jones and a major supporter of the Mt. Olive, Ill.-based Mother Jones Museum, helped coordinate the creation of a BCTGM-made cake to commemorate the life of Mother Jones. The special 180th birthday cake was...

01 May, 2017

The important worker safety and health gains that the BCTGM and the American labor movement have fought for and won are now threatened. The Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on regulations. The president has ordered that for every new protection, two existing safeguards must be removed from the books. At the same time, Republicans in Congress have moved quickly to overturn new rules issued by the Obama administration. Agency budgets and enforcement programs...

28 April, 2017

Nearly 700,000: That’s the number of high-wage manufacturing jobs sent by NAFTA to Mexico, where pay remains near the lowest in the world. On the presidential campaign trail, then-candidate Trump called NAFTA the “worst trade deal.” We agree. But any renegotiation must raise wages and standards for workers, not further tilt our economy to benefit the wealthy few. The labor movement's blueprint for rewriting NAFTA includes: No more private justice system for foreign investors; New powerful rules on the environment...

27 April, 2017

Nobody should be in danger for a dollar, but 4,836 people died in 2015 at work from machine malfunctions, equipment failures, falls from construction equipment, and other deadly and preventable causes. More than 50,000 people died from those work-related injuries and illnesses. These are mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, folks who simply worked for a living. Safety has been losing the tug of war with profits for years. Death is the result, and the danger is...

26 April, 2017

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gave a major address before the National Press Club in Washington D.C., calling upon leaders of both parties to not only pursue an agenda that benefits working people across the country, but that strengthens the right of every American to negotiate for better wages and benefits. As part of President Trumka's formal address on American jobs, Nabisco/Mondelez worker Michael Smith was invited as a special guest. President Trumka urged action on behalf of...

05 April, 2017

The BCTGM is among the IUF member unions around the world that will be engaging in a week of global trade union action this week, March 27-31, to signal our collective commitment to defending quality permanent employment against the destructive short-termism which is driving management at Mondelēz. In addition to the Nabisco brand in North America,  Mondelēz also owns the Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Cote d'Or, belVita, LU, Trident, TUC, Halls,  Tang and other world renowned brands. Unions in the...

27 March, 2017

Guest Post by J. David Cox, Sr., National President, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), AFL-CIO Over the last several years, anti-union lawmakers and their corporate allies have waged a relentless battle against working people. Now, the campaign to dismantle collective bargaining rights has arrived squarely at the steps of the federal government and the public workers who keep our country healthy, safe, and strong. On March 16, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that...

27 March, 2017

Millions of union members and activists around the globe joined together yesterday to mark the one year anniversary of the 600 layoffs of BCTGM Local 300 members from the Mondelēz/Nabisco Chicago bakery. The BCTGM's Digital Day of Action received the full support of the AFL-CIO and its 55 affiliated Unions. From teachers (AFT), Nurses (NNU), Seafarers (SIU and MTD), Office Professionals (OPEIU) and Postal Workers (APWU), to Communications Workers (CWA), Auto Workers (UAW), Machinists (IAM), Electrical...

24 March, 2017

“Today’s layoff of the first 277 employees from the Nabisco Chicago Bakery should not be seen as the end of the Union’s fight to save these American jobs, but rather the launch of an intensified effort to educate the American consumer on the transfer of this work from the hard working employees of Chicago to low wage jobs at Nabisco’s production facility in Salinas, Mexico.” - BCTGM International President David Durkee; March 23, 2016 Today, March 23rd, marks...

23 March, 2017

The AFL-CIO Executive Council has approved a new National Good Jobs campaign that will expose and challenge the corporate outsourcing of jobs by American companies, choosing Mondelēz International as its first example of greed over good. The AFL-CIO has issued the following press release: March 14, 2017 Mondelēz (Nabisco/Oreo)Will Be the First Solidarity Campaign (San Antonio, March 14, 2017) – The AFL-CIO Executive Council came out of its annual winter meeting reinvigorated and reorganized around the principle that every worker...

15 March, 2017

March 23rd marks one year since Mondelēz/Nabisco began laying off Local 300 members from the Chicago bakery and sending their jobs to Salinas, Mexico. Now, workers toiling under exploitive conditions in Mexico produce the formerly made-in-the U.S. Nabisco products that are shipped back to American consumers. The Nabisco 600 and the Check the Label campaign has gained tremendous support from activists coast to coast. In a collective act of solidarity, we are asking BCTGM members, their...

10 March, 2017