2015 May
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Chicago, Ill. – BCTGM representatives met today with local and international representatives of Mondelēz International, Inc. to discuss investment plans related to the company’s Chicago bakery located at 7300 South Kedzie Avenue. Mondelēz essentially told the BCTGM that the workers had to come up with $46 million in annual savings at the Chicago facility for the company, or it would take the $130 million planned investment to its Salinas, Mexico bakery. And, even with the $46...

The five-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C.  has reaffirmed that the Kellogg Company illegally locked out more than 220 members of BCTGM Local 252G at the company’s Memphis, Tenn. cereal plant from October 22, 2013 to August 11, 2014. The May 7th NLRB decision directed the company to make all employees whole for any loss of earnings and benefits they suffered as a result of the unlawful lockout. The ruling...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has scheduled a Federal Hearing to deliberate the Federal Complaint against Archer Daniel Midland (ADM) for violating Federal Labor Laws by interrogating, threatening and intimidating workers during their efforts to join a union. Sixty-two workers at the ADM Bio-Product Maintenance plant in Decatur, Ill. voted to join BCTGM Local 103G earlier this year in a secret ballot election conducted by NLRB Region 25. This was the second attempt by the ADM...

Under intense pressure from the labor movement and the progressive community, the Senate voted 52 to 45 to block debate on Fast Track legislation that would have forbidden Congress from making amendments to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. BCTGM International President David Durkee urges union members to continue to put pressure on their members of Congress. "This is far from over. There is nothing pro-trade legislators and corporate lobbyists won't do to force this job-killing deal through Congress....

We can’t afford to pass fast track legislation, which would pave the way for a bad trade deal that lowers wages and outsources jobs. For decades, we’ve seen how fast-tracked trade deals have devastated our communities through lost jobs and eroded public services. We need a new model for trade that raises wages, addresses currency cheating, and doesn’t prioritize corporate profits over protecting working people.  That’s why Congress must reject Fast Track and maintain its leverage and its...

"Fast Track isn't a video game, a motor speedway or the official name of the high-speed rail project in California. In fact, "Fast Track" does not refer to anything swag at all — it's a term that refers to international trade policy — and a very lame policy at that. Check out these few reasons why "Fast Track" is terrible for working people in this BuzzFeed Post from the AFL-CIO.    1. ‘Fast Track’ is Old School Via flapjackstate.com   And not in...