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Read the Report (Washington, DC, March 3, 2016) โ€“ A new report released today from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) offers further data that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is fatally flawed. โ€œEPIโ€™s new report quantifies what a mistake it was to leave currency rules out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The trade deficit with TPP countries โ€“ attributable in large part to misaligned currency โ€“ cost Americaโ€™s working families 2 million jobs in 2015, more than half in...

03 March, 2016

In July 2015, Nabisco announced it had chosen to invest an additional $130 million in its new $400 million plant in Salinas, Mexico, instead of investing that money in its iconic plant in Chicago. As a result, 600 workers in Chicago could lose their jobs and an entire South Side community could be devastated. Watch and share this video with everyone you know! Join the fight to save American Jobs! TAKE ACTION!ย Click here to sign our...

19 February, 2016

Generations of BCTGM Local 300ย families from this Southside Chicago community have produced Nabisco products for more than five decades. Sign this petition to Mondelฤ“z/Nabisco CEO urging her to stop outsourcing American jobs to Mexico: http://bit.ly/1QGFVdA...

28 January, 2016

In response to Mondelฤ“z Internationalโ€™s ongoing violations of its Collective Bargaining Agreement, BCTGM Local 300 โ€“ which represents nearly 1,000 members at the Mondelฤ“z Nabisco Bakery located at 7300 Kedzie Avenue in Chicago โ€“ filed for injunctive relief requesting court-compelled arbitration regarding these violations. The complaint particularly calls for arbitration regarding the companyโ€™s continued use of non-union employees in bargaining unit positions instead of hiring union employees into open positions, as required under the Collective...

22 January, 2016

International Union of Food Workers Announces Solidarity in Support of United Effort to Protect Worker Rights KENSINGTON, Md., January 7, 2015 โ€“The International Union of Food Workers (IUF) and its affiliates, representing 2.5 million workers in 126 countries, have affirmed their solidarity with Mondelฤ“z International workers across the globe. IUF affiliates represent the vast majority of Mondelฤ“z manufacturing employees in over 30 countries from Alexandria, Egypt to Chicago, Illinois; and since 1920, the organization has been...

07 January, 2016

Following a months-long investigation, Region 18 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that it had decided to issue a complaint charging Ingredion, Inc. with multiple violations of the National Labor Relations Act at its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility. Those violations include illegally engaging in โ€œsurface bargainingโ€โ€“ meaning engaging in a sham process of going through the motions without an intention of reaching agreement โ€“ with members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers...

06 January, 2016

Americaโ€™s economy has swung out of balance. Itโ€™s getting harder to get by, let alone get ahead. Everyday Americans are working more than ever before. Our work has created record wealth for an economic recovery thatโ€™s been everywhere but ordinary peoplesโ€™ wallets. Our economic rules unfairly favor corporate CEOs and the rich because they manipulate the rules in their favor. Almost no one stands up for average Americans these days,ย and now there is a Supreme Court...

06 January, 2016

Local 1 Richmond Baking Workers On Strike During the contract meeting held on Sunday, January 3, 2016 workers at Richmond Baking Company, members of  Local Union 1 Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union AFL-CIO-CLC, voted unanimously to reject the company’s final offer. They later voted unanimously to set a strike date and time for 2 p.m. Monday, January 4, 2016. Negotiations with Richmond Baking Company, located at 520 N. Sixth Street Richmond...

06 January, 2016

According to a recent blog piece by The Atlantic, ย laws raising the minimum wage in 12 states wentย into effect on January 1st. Additionally, the minimum wage in Maryland and Washington D.C. will go up in July, andย inflation adjustments will be made to raise the minimum wage in Colorado and South Dakota. A handful of cities and counties, including New York, will also see minimum-wage increases. Efforts to raise the minimum wage paid off in 2015, and as...

04 January, 2016

The holidays are best enjoyed with union-madeย cookies, cakes and desserts! BCTGM Local 24 (Sanย Francisco) represents union bakers at numerousย specialty bakeries renowned for scratch madeย breads, cookies, cakes and pastries. San Franciscoโ€™s Boudin Bakeries hasย produced sourdough bread since 1849.ย Since apprenticing withย former Boudin ownerย โ€œPapa Steveโ€ Giraudoย at 17, Master Baker andย BCTGM Local 24 memberย  Fernando Padilla hasย lovingly preserved Boudinโ€™sย breadmaking traditions.ย On his role in continuingย the Boudin legacy,ย Fernando says: โ€œLike Papaย Steve, Iโ€™m just anotherย baker.โ€ The modest and talented Fernando leads aย team of 20...

16 December, 2015

More than five years after 29 miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., justice was finally served as former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was found criminally guilty for a conspiracy to willfully violate the Mine Safety and Health Act. While the tragedy was the largest loss of life in a mine accident in the United Statesย since 1970, numerous other workers have lost their lives in...

03 December, 2015

The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released, and itโ€™s worse than we thought. It has many of the same provisions that gave corporations and CEOs more power over our communities and shipped jobs overseas. Watch this video to learn why TPP is not good for America's workers. https://youtu.be/yVkom0B_UjY...

19 November, 2015

More than three years have passedย since they voted to form a union andย Panera workers in Michigan are still waiting. The franchisee that owns the Panera Bread stores in the region continues to refuse to recognize the BCTGM as the official collective bargaining representative of the bakers and refuses to meet to bargain a first contract.ย  The NLRB found that Panera broke the law by refusing to bargain, and ordered the company to bargain with the...

06 November, 2015

Annabelle Candy Company: Rocky Road, Abba Zaba, Look, Big Hunk and U-No. (Local 125/Oakland, Calif.)   Boyer Candies: Mallo Cups, Peanut Butter Cups, Smoothie Cups, Triple Twist Pretzels, Dark Chocolate Mallo Cups. (Local 19/Cleveland, Ohio)   Concord Confections (Tootsie Roll Industries): Double Bubble Bubble Gum. (Local 264/Toronto)   Ghirardelli Chocolate: Pumpkin Spice Caramel Squares, Solid Milk, Milk & Caramel, Solid 60% Cacao Dark and Dark & Sea Salt Caramel and all varieties of chocolates. (Local 125/Oakland, Calif.)   Hershey: Hershey Milk Chocolate Bars, Hershey Milk Chocolate with Almond Bars, Cookies Nโ€™ Creme...

14 October, 2015

Twin Cities, Minn. โˆ’ After months of negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement, workers at the Pearsonโ€™s Candy Company facility in St. Paul, Minn. are urging company CEO Michael Keller to force company negotiators to bargain in good faith. BCTGM Local Union 22 and Pearsonโ€™s Candy have yet to reach agreement on a new contract to replace the one that expires on October 27. Local 22 represents more than 160 employees at the candy facility,...

09 October, 2015