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Kensington, MD, January 30, 2013 - In Response to the Announcement of Stalking Horse Bidder Apollo Global Management LLC and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. for the Majority of Snack Cake Businesses in the Hostess Liquidation, BCTGM International President David B. Durkee Issued the Following Statement on Behalf of all BCTGM Members: “We share these bidders’ goal of quickly restoring Twinkies®, CupCakes®, Ding Dongs® and Ho Hos®, among others, to shelves across America, and view new, serious...

31 January, 2013

BCTGM Local 218 member Mike Hummell, a Hostess/Wonder worker for 14 years, helps to tell the story of the Hostess bankruptcy through the eyes of dedicated Kansas bakers. โ€œYou've heard the Mainstream Media read you the Hostess PR sheet, now hear the truth from the mouths of the people who had their pension stolen. As the mainstream media distracted America with misinformation about Unions, the Hedge Funds got away with theft. They collected $4.25 an hour...

24 January, 2013

"Honorable and effective service to the membership is the highest objective which any labor organization can seek. The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union will ever be faithful and devoted to this aspiration and trust."ย  -Declaration of Principles, BCTGM Constitution As I prepared this, my last column as International Union President, I decided to look back at my first column twenty years ago.ย  At the time, I wrote, โ€œThe one thing I want...

14 December, 2012

Photo: Joe Richard LANSING, Mich. -- More than 17,000 workers from all walks of life rallied yesterday outside the Michigan State Capitol building as anti-worker legislators heeded Gov. Rick Snyderโ€™s call to divide Michigan by ramming through a so-called โ€œright-to-workโ€ bill which promises to kill jobs, lower wages, crush workersโ€™ rights and unravel the middle class.ย  BCTGM members from throughout Michigan, including Locals 326 (Detroit), 3G (Battle Creek), 259G (Carrollton), 260G (Caro), 261G (Sebewaing), 262G (Croswell) and...

12 December, 2012

Today, BCTGM members are joining thousands of people in Lansing, Mich., to march on the state Capitol to fight back against Gov. Rick Snyderโ€™s (R) and Republican legislatorsโ€™ย steamrolling โ€œright to workโ€ for lessย legislation without public debate or hearings. ย  Below is live-streaming video from theย UAW's Ustreamย page.ย  You canย alsoย visit the UAW Facebook page for live-streaming updates. Stream videos at Ustream Updates will be posted throughout the day on the AFL-CIO Now blog and you also...

11 December, 2012

โ€œThe re-election of Barack Obama represents a major victory for this nation and working people. โ€œPresident Obama has spent the past four years fighting to level the playing field for the American middle class.ย  He has stood with working people and the labor movement time and time again on workersโ€™ rights, workplace health and safety, job creation and economic growth.ย  Today, that fight continues. Now it is time to stand with our President, united, to pursue...

07 November, 2012

by Tulla Connell Itโ€™s hard to miss a burly firefighter in a bright pink T-shirt. And for tens of thousands of Fire Fighters (IAFF) union members across the country, thatโ€™s exactly the point. When the public sees them in pink tees, they are reminded that breast cancer is a deadly disease requiring regular exams and mammograms. And they are urged to help women who canโ€™t afford regular check-ups. Although firefighters put their lives on the line every...

27 September, 2012

AFL-CIOย - Just who was Mitt Romney referring to in his secretly recorded comments at a Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser as people who donโ€™t โ€œtake personal responsibility and care for themselvesโ€? 61 percent of them work but donโ€™t earn enough to owe income tax. 17 percent are students (who will pay plenty of taxes once theyโ€™re out of school), military families, people with disabilities and people who have lost their jobsโ€”including victims of outsourcers like, well, Mitt Romney. 22...

19 September, 2012

AFL-CIO - The vast majority of America's workers have largely been shut out of the nationโ€™s economic growth over the past three decades, reports the 12th edition of The State of Working America from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Released today and available online, the report finds that the typical American family has added hundreds of extra hours of work each year, while also earning better education credentials, yet is still struggling to keep up. The State...

12 September, 2012

(This is a cross post from BoldProgressives.org: http://boldprogressives.org/chicagos-teachers-just-went-on-strike-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-why/) Today the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) went on strike, its first action of the sort in 25 years. Why are these 29,000 teachers and school workers going on strike in the nation's third-largest public school district? Because they want what all workers want: fair pay and decent working conditions. They also want what all teachers want to serve their students to their best of their abilities. Here's a few...

10 September, 2012

ย  Jackie Tortura, AFL-CIO - America needs good jobs and shared prosperity, AFL-CIO President Richardย Trumka told delegates at the Democratic National Convention tonight. Itโ€™s abundantly clear the Romney-Ryan ticket is only offering prosperity for the richย and an economic nightmare for everyone else, whether it's cutting Medicare and Social Security, giving the rich more tax breaks orย outsourcing America's jobs. โ€œProsperity requires democracyโ€”starting with the essential right of everyone in this great country to a voice, both in...

05 September, 2012

American Rights at Work -ย  What do โ€œCovert Affairsโ€ star Christopher Gorham, Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, and the Cleveland Brownsโ€™ Benjamin Watson have in common?ย  Theyโ€™re all proud union members and theyโ€™re all participating in our third annual Labor Day Tweet-a-Thon. Each year, our goal is simple: Take over Twitter during the holiday weekend, using the #unionmember hashtag to spread a positive message about the value of unions. Last year, American Rights at Work and...

31 August, 2012

ย  After many years of struggle, Hyatt workers and allies launched a global boycott of Hyatt on July 23, 2012. Leaders from the AFL-CIO, the NFL Players Association, the National Organization of Women (NOW), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Netroots Nation, Interfaith Worker Justice, and more joined Hyatt housekeepers for the launch, which marks the largest escalation to date in an ongoing campaign for basic worker rights. Hyatt has singled itself out as the worst...

10 August, 2012

Audio available at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12103381/7-25press%20conference.mp3 (St. Paul, Minn., July 25) โ€“ Today AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined 1300 workers with the Bakery, Confectionery Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), who have been locked out of five processing facilities and other facilities of American Crystal Sugar, in announcing that the AFL-CIO and BCTGM are escalating their campaign for fairness and justice at the company. The lockout, which began on August 1, 2011, came in the...

25 July, 2012

Kalamazoo, MI. โ€“ On June 28, 2012, three months after the majority of Bakers employed at Panera Bread Cafรฉs in the I-94 Corridor Division voted Union yes, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a federal complaint against the company.ย  After Panera Bakers voted yes to be represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union Local 70, both the company and the union filed unfair labor practice charges against one...

16 July, 2012