09 Nov Why the Strikes, and What Might They Lead To?
BY HAROLD MEYERSON The American Prospect NOVEMBER 8, 2021 The Great Recession is long gone, but some employers insist that their employees work under recession-era constraints. Striketober is over but strikes still persist. At tractor manufacturer John Deere, 10,000 workers have rejected two successive offers from the company and still walk the picket lines. At Kellogg, the union representing the 1,400 workers who turn out the nationโs breakfasts has refused the companyโs offers, which have addressed...
14 Oct Nabisco Local 358 Joins AFL-CIO President Shuler at the National Press Club
BCTGM Local 358 President Keith Bragg and Financial Secretary/Business Agent Darlene Carpenter joined AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, October 13. As she began her address, Shuler introduced her invited guests, who included the Local 358 officers. She commended Nabisco workers for their victory as she introduced Carpenter and Bragg she said, โThe bakery workers of Local in Richmond, Virginia who took on Nabisco and won! โMore...
08 Oct HAROLD MEYERSON: The Little Union Thatโs Reviving the Strike
American Prospect writer Harold Meyerson wrote this piece about the BCTGM on October 7 for his column, Meyerson on TAP. The roll call of unions that have actually changed the trajectory of American labor is relatively short: the United Auto Workers, the Mine Workers, and other CIO unions in the 1930s and โ40s, as factory workers organized; AFSCME and the American Federation of Teachers in the 1960s and โ70s, as unions took hold in the...28 Jun Announcing the 2021 Winners of the David B. Durkee Memorial Scholarship
The BCTGM International Union awards five scholarship prizes to members, or children of members, each year worth $5,000. The program is a tribute to the legacy of President Durkee and the high value he placed on learning and education. The 2021 Winners include: Summer Clair, daughter of Local 403 (Kingston, Ontario) member Gerard Clair, who works for George Weston Limited in Kingston. Summer will attend Algonquin College. Kyla Pham, daughter of Local 374G (Lancaster, Pa.)...22 Jun L.42 Holds Operation Feed Hartwell COVID-19 Community Relief
More than 300 families in Hartwell, Ga. are able to feed their families union-made goods thanks to a Local 42 (Atlanta) led COVID-19 community relief effort. Together with Impact Church of Hartwell, the local union wanted to reach members of the community who have been negatively affected by the pandemic. Local 42 represents the maintenance workers at the nearby Nestlรฉ Purina plant. Several workers from the plant volunteered to help distribute the food to hundreds...28 May On The Road With Local 6: The Grand Finale
“This day was an extraordinary show of union solidarity and we are very grateful to the BCTGM International Union. From the arrival of the trucks to the last car of union workers who were so thankful to receive these products – it was indeed, a very good day.” – New Jersey State AFL-CIO Pres. Charles Wowkanech An hour before the planned drive-thru Operation Feed Atlantic City food distribution at Bader Field for out-of-work casino employees...27 May On the Road with Local 6 Day TWO: Final Product Collection and Union Connections
The BCTGM Food Relief caravan departed the Philadelphia AFL-CIO early this afternoon and headed across town to the Tastykake bakery where members of BCTGM Local 492 make snack cakes. Upon arrival, union members helped load five pallets of Tastykake. The trucks next headed to Mays Landing, N.J. to the BIMBO Bakeries USA depot to refill the trucks with additional products donated by the company. “BIMBO Bakeries has been just amazing. They have always been a...27 May On the Road with Local 6 Day TWO: Philadelphia AFL-CIO
The BCTGM Local 6 trucks filled to the top with union-made Kellogg and BIMBO Bakeries USA products made their way to the Philadelphia AFL-CIO this morning where they dropped off product for the Philadelphia Joint Board, Workers United Food Distribution Site. Established October 20, 1920, the Philadelphia Joint Board, of Workers United, SEIU, is a union now comprised largely of food service workers and laundry workers in Philadelphia and New Jersey. The Philadelphia Joint Board...26 May On the Road with Local 6 Day ONE: Local 6 Begins Massive COVID-19 Food Relief Effort
In a 26-foot rented box truck, BCTGM Local 6 Financial Secretary-Treasurer Edgar Rodriguez, Local 6 member Wilfredo Rodriguez and President Hank McKay began the local’s three-day food collection journey this morning in Lancaster, Pa. that will include thousands of pounds of BCTGM made goods distributed to union families across hundreds of miles. McKay’s first stop was the Kellogg’s plant where members of BCTGM Local Local 374G produce Kellogg’s Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes....25 Mar Union Food Production Workers are Critical During the COVID-19 Pandemic
BCTGM Workers play a vital role in helping ensure the continuity of the U.S. food supply The BCTGM represents thousands of workers at food processing facilities throughout North America who are working around the clock to keep grocery shelves stocked and food on the tables of working families in the United States and Canada. The food processing sector has been deemed an โessential industryโ by federal and state governments in the United States. The importance...30 Aug President Durkee Proposes Resolution to Delegates of the IUF 27th World Congress
At the IUF 27th World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, the BCTGM delegation was among 518 delegates representing 216 ย labor organizations from 90 countries around the world. BCTGM International President David Durkee spoke on behalf of Resolution #8, “Strengthening the IUF Divisions and Company-Wide Union Networks,โ specifically advocating the proposed “IUF Food Processing Division.” In his remarks, Durkee reminded the Congress that in the past, every IUF affiliate union has been forced to go up against...17 Apr Stop Fast Track: Call Your Senator TODAY!
The BCTGM knows firsthand the hardship that results when multinational corporations, Wall Street and their political allies in Washington, D.C. team up to enact โfree tradeโ agreements. In the last 20 years, many thousands of BCTGM members have lost their good, middle-class jobs because the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has made it easy and profitable for companies like Nabisco, Hershey and Kellogg to close plants in the U.S. and Canada and move production...12 Mar The President’s Report: Defeating โFast Trackโ is Key to Stopping Destructive โFree Tradeโ Deals
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The record is clear, convincing and indisputable. For more than two decades, โfree tradeโ agreements have had a disastrous impact on American and Canadian working families and devastated communities throughout North America. The BCTGM and our members know firsthand the hardship that results when multinational corporations, Wall Street and their political allies in Washington, D.C. team up to enact โfree tradeโ agreements. In the last 20 years, many thousands of our BCTGM Brothers and Sisters...