2013 February
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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By Bruce Vail, Working in These Times Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced an expanded package of benefits for more than 18,000 workers fired from their jobs at Hostess Brands, the company famous for producing Wonder Bread and Twinkies. The workers—formerly employed in 864 separate Hostess locations in 48 states—were summarily fired last November when company managers rather than reach an agreement with striking members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers...

WASHINGTON โ€“ The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that approximately 18,000 workers laid off in 48 states from 864 Hostess company locations are eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance.ย  โ€œAs President Obama said in his State of the Union address, โ€˜to grow our middle class, our citizens must have access to the education and training that todayโ€™s jobs require,โ€™ โ€ said acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris. โ€œTrade Adjustment Assistance enables workers to...

By Dave Jamieson, Huffington Post Kathleen VonEitzen heads into work at 10 p.m. with a long night ahead of her. A trained baker, VonEitzen spends the evening and early morning hours cutting and shaping trays full of dough, shuffling between multiple ovens, and constantly checking her crusts until they're browned just right. She pulls hundreds of fresh baguettes, bagels, cookies and scones from the ovens until her shift finally ends around dawn. VonEitzen, 55, doesn't work in...

The Gordian Group's Peter Kaufman, who is assisting the BCTGM and the B&C Pension Fund during the sale of Hostess, appeared on CNBC on Tuesday to offer the latest on the sale of the brands and the BCTGM's position for potential buyers.   Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...

“When the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union drew a line in the sand in November and said it would rather risk liquidation, it was over. It was a principled position that the brands would do better with a fresh start and new management.” Read this New York Times piece from STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF that examines liquidation not as what killed Hostess, but rather the only thing that could have saved it. PDF: bctgm.org/PDFs/NYTimes_Feb5-2013.pdf Permalink:...