2009 October
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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Just a year after Local 70 (Grand Rapids, Mich.) organized Roskam Baking Company's new cereal plant in Grand Rapids, the company has voluntarily recognized the local union at its new candy manufacturing facility. In 2008, representatives from Local 70--which has had a decades-long relationship with the company at facilities throughout Michigan--approached Roskam management about voluntarily recognizing the union at the new facility. Initially the company refused, however it allowed...