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President-elect Joe Biden has announced that he has chosen Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to be his labor secretary. Walsh, 53, has served as the Democratic mayor of Boston since 2014. A former union member, Walsh has a long history with labor. He served as president of Laborers Local 223 and, before becoming mayor, led the Boston Building Trades of the AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Walsh will be an "exceptional" labor secretary, stating: โ€œBoston Mayor Marty Walsh...

08 January, 2021

BY WILMA B. LIEBMAN February 19, 2020 Wilma B. Liebman served as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, appointed by Presidents Clinton and Bush, and named chairman by President Obama (1997-2011). In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump declared that โ€œour agenda is relentlessly pro-worker.โ€  Relentless, yes. Pro-worker, no. Look no further than the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency where workersโ€™ rights are being rolled back radically by the...

20 February, 2020

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled thatย Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)ย is guilty of violating federal labor laws. The NLRB adopted the findings and conclusions of Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Melissa M. Olivero. In a thirty-three page Decision, Judge Olivero wrote, โ€œADM has committed numerous violations of Section 8(a)(1) of the Act by interrogating and threatening its employees. During their 2015 effort to become members of BCTGM Local 103G, workers at ADM's Bio-products facility in Decatur, Ill....

03 March, 2016

Following a months-long investigation, Region 18 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that it had decided to issue a complaint charging Ingredion, Inc. with multiple violations of the National Labor Relations Act at its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility. Those violations include illegally engaging in โ€œsurface bargainingโ€โ€“ meaning engaging in a sham process of going through the motions without an intention of reaching agreement โ€“ with members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers...

06 January, 2016

The following article featuring the current organizing drive ย of BCTGM Local 232 in Phoenix, Arizona was published online by Erik De La Garza ย on Thursday, September 10.ย  PHOENIX (CN) - Multibillion-dollar Shamrock Foods, the largest dairy in the Southwest, threatens, spies on and fires employees for supporting their union, the National Labor Relations Board claims in court. NLRB Regional Director Cornele A. Overstreet sued Shamrock Foods Co. on Tuesday in Federal Court. Shamrock Foods is ranked 185...

14 September, 2015

Pictured here after the final votes were counted is (from left, front row) Intl. Rep. David Woods, Randy Williams, George Key, Tony Sanders, L. 42 Bus. Agt. Zach Townsend and L. 149 Pres./GEB member Letitia Malone, (from left, back row) Vanessa Corbitt, Allan Wright, Joseph Dickens and Phyllis Dickens. It was the unwavering strength and courage of 80 workers at a peanut shelling plant in Alabama that prevailed in their fight for dignity and respect through...

29 June, 2015

The five-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C.ย  has reaffirmed that the Kellogg Company illegally locked out more than 220 members of BCTGM Local 252G at the companyโ€™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...

14 May, 2015

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...

13 May, 2015

A federal judge yesterday granted an injunction ordering the Kellogg Company to end its lockout of 226 ย BCTGMย Local 252G membersโ€”at its Memphis cereal plant and reinstate them to their jobs within five days. Judge Samuel H. Mays, of the Western District of Tennessee, also ordered Kellogg to bargain with the union in good faith; offer reinstatement to every worker to their former or equivalent positions; re-establish the same terms and conditions of employment prior to the...

31 July, 2014

โ€œU.S. Government Charges Kellogg with Serious Violations of Federal Lawโ€ย  โ€“ BCTGM News Release, March 27, 2014 โ€œFederal Government Seeks Immediate Court Action to End Illegal Memphis Lockoutโ€ โ€“ BCTGM News Release, April 5, 2014 What a difference a year can make! At this time last year, the labor movement was confronting one of its greatest challenges since the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act, the โ€œWorkersโ€™ Bill of Rightsโ€, nearly 80 years earlier. ย The National Labor Relations Board...

15 May, 2014

Kensington, MD, April 5, 2014 โ€“ย In yet another major development regarding the Kellogg Companyโ€™s illegal lockout of its Memphis, Tenn. workforce, the five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) headquartered in Washington, D.C. unanimously authorized on April 4th its lawyers to seek an immediate injunction in U.S. Federal Court against the company for its part in the long-running lockout. Workers at the facility are represented by Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 252G. โ€œThis...

05 April, 2014

Kensington, MD, March 27, 2014 โ€“ย Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) issued the following statement in response to the March 27 complaint issued by the Nationalย Labor Relations Boardย (NLRB)ย against the Kellogg Company: Earlier today, the U.S. government charged the Kellogg Company with multiple and serious violations of federal law stemming from its October 22, 2013 lockout of more than 220 workers at the companyโ€™s Memphis cereal production facility. In filing a Complaint against Kellogg...

27 March, 2014

Thomas E. Perez, the U.S. secretary of labor, sends you this message on Labor Day: Brother and Sisters, From the U.S. Department of Labor, where I proudly work in a building named for my great predecessor Frances Perkins, let me wish all of my friends in the AFL-CIO and your familiesโ€”wherever you areโ€”a safe, happy and healthy Labor Day. This Labor Day feels special in many ways: weโ€™re celebrating 100 years of the Labor Departmentโ€™s tireless efforts...

02 September, 2013

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is now fully staffed and able to continue to function to protect workersโ€™ rights after the U.S. Senate on July 30 confirmed five members. The votes end a months-long blockade on President Obamaโ€™s nominees by Senate Republicans who threatened to shut the board down August 27. The five members are current NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce; Nancy Schiffer, a former AFL-CIO associate general counsel; and NLRB attorney Kent Hirozawa, currently the...

01 August, 2013

AFL-CIO Although it took an eleventh hour deal, a shimmer of light has broken through the extreme Republican obstruction in the Senate. It is finally time to end the unprecedented blocking of President Obamaโ€™s nominees, which has spanned more than 700 days. More important, a confirmed National Labor Relations Board will provide millions of workers with real protection of their rights to organize and bargain with their employers. Our founding fathers granted the Senate the power to...

17 July, 2013