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For years, employees at the Franklin Street Bakery in Minneapolis have reported poverty wages, lack of time off for illness and family, unaffordable health coverage, little opportunity for advancement, and favoritism. Workers are now exercising their legal right to form a union because they believe speaking up together is the only way bakery management will treat them with respect and pay living wages. In response, management has began an anti-union campaign against workers filled with threats,...

Bakers at the new Safeway Retail Bakeries in Burlingame and Los Gatos, California are now members ofย BCTGM Local 24 (San Francisco).ย  According to Local 24 Financial Secretary Joe Biringer, the local union contacted the bakers after the new retail outlets opened. ย The local organized the two bakeries, consisting of bakery managers, journeyman bakers, apprentice bakers, cake decorators, apprentice cake decorators, and donut fryers.ย  Local 24 requested and were granted voluntary recognition by Safeway. Financial Secretary Biringer...