2006 September
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
bctgm, bakers union, tobacco union, candy union, food workers, food workers union, grain millers, grain millers union, mondelez, nabisco, snack union,
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The demographics of the workplace are changing rapidly in North America and the BCTGM must adapt quicker than employers to be successful in organizing.  A recent organizing campaign at the captive bakery at the Fiesta Mart grocery chain in Houston, Texas, is a case in point. The bargaining unit of 131 bakers consists primarily of immigrant workers from El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.  According to the campaign's lead organizer, International Representative/ Organizer Cesar Calderon, the main...