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The San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles areas are world renown for their famous chocolates. The vast volume of the very best chocolates are manufactured by BCTGM members at companies like Ghirardelli and Seeโ€™s Chocolate companies. BCTGM Local 125 ( Oakland, Calif.) has added yet another chocolate company to that list by organizing Shaw's Chocolates located in Oakland, Calif. The organizing campaign was headed up by Business Agent & Organizer Guy Jacobo. International Representatives Marco Mendoza...

If you thought talented cake decorators were a thing of the past, you should visit your local union retail bakery of your area grocery store. In a union environment, the decorators are highly skilled bakers who are in demand by employers. In Oregon, the cake decorators employed by three retail stores have recently been organized byย BCTGM Local 114 ( Portland). The bakeries are the Albertson's in-store bakery #518 in Wilsonville; the Fred Meyer in-store bakery in...