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Today, workers at the Bimbo Bakeries USA high performance facility in Elkhart, Indiana voted to become members of BCTGM Local 1 (Chicago). This is the fourth Bimbo high performance workplace the Union has organized in the last 22 months. In 2010, Bimbo Bakeries USA announced it would invest one billion dollars into upgrading and building new high performance bakeries in the United States.ย  Bimbo built four brand new high performance bakeries in Rockwall, Texas; Lehigh Valley,...

In 2006, organizers at Local 358 (Richmond, Va.) were extremely disappointed after workers at the Supervalu distribution center in Richmond Virginia, voted narrowly against joining the BCTGM. โ€œItโ€™s a punch in the gut when you lose a campaign,โ€ says International Representative Jim Condran who assisted the local during the organizing drive.ย  โ€œBut we never lost contact with those workers and the organizing committee continued to work doggedly to garner more support.โ€ Fast forward eight years, and those...

This is a cross post from the AFL-CIO: The growing movement for aย living wage and justiceย for fast-food and other low-wage workers will reach another milestone next week with a nationwide strike set for Aug. 29. Following the success and public support of aย walkout in eight citiesย earlier this month, those workers and the community, faith and labor groups that back themย are calling on fast-food and low-wage retail workersย across the nation to join them in the fight for $15...

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...

Prime Example of Why the Senate Must Confirm Obamaโ€™s Board Nominees ย This is how hope turns into despair.ย More than a year since they voted to form a union, Panera workers in Michigan are still waiting. The franchisee that owns the Panera Bread stores in the region refused to recognize theย BCTGMย as the official representative of the bakers and refused to meet to bargain a first contract.ย  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that Panera broke the...

Ursula Zerilli, MLive.com KALAMAZOO, MI โ€“ Daniel Wood used to carry extra baking tools in his back pack, but lately the Panera Bread lead baker dons a briefcase full of legal paperwork. Wood, who works at the Panera Bread franchise on West Main Street, has become a leader of sorts of 17 bakers from six Panera Bread franchises in Kalamazoo, Portage, Battle Creek, Jackson and St. Joseph, who were the first in the country to unionize...

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...

November 21, 2012 โ€“ The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a Summary Judgment against Bread of Life d/b/a Panera Bread in South Western Michigan.ย  The Judgment states the company violated Sections 8(a)(5) and (1) of the National Labor Relations Act (ACT) by refusing to recognize and bargain with the BCTGM Local 70 (Grand Rapids, Mich.).ย  On February 24, 2012, after a full and complete hearing on a petition filed by the BCTGM Local 70...

On August 30, 2012, the BCTGM International Union and Local 218 (Kansas City, MO) won an organizing campaign at White Energy Gluten Mill in Russell, Kan. Gluten is one of the most critical ingredients in the manufacturing of most bakery and confectionery products. White Energy's customers include a number of BCTGM-represented baking and confectionery companies like Bimbo, Sara Lee, and Hershey. The workers in the newly organized unit produce wheat gluten. The facility also produces ethanol,...

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...

Kalamazoo, MI. โ€“ If you drive by a Panera Bread Cafรฉ on any given morning, you will be treated with the decadent smell of freshly baking bread and sweet goods, thanks to the artful skills of Panera Bread bakers. These bakers work from 10:00 p.m. each night to 6:00 a.m. each morning making sure fresh bread, rolls, cakes and other baked goods are carefully molded and baked in time for the early morning Cafรฉ opening....

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved new union representation rules to ensure workers can freely exercise one basic right we hold dear in this countryโ€”the right to vote. The new rules make union representation elections fairer by simplifying procedures, deferring litigation and setting shorter deadlines for hearings and filings. Currently when workers petition the NLRB for an election, it can take months and even years before they can cast a vote. Companies often use...

BCTGM Region 6 International Vice President Randy Roark reports that local unions on the West Coast are receiving phone calls from unorganized workers at a record pace. ย  Non-union workers, normally shy and fearful about getting involved in an organizing campaign, are reaching out to unions as they watch the poor getting poorer, the middle class disappearing and the rich getting richer.ย  BCTGM Secretary-Treasurer and Director of Organization David B. Durkee notes, "It is a harsh...

Bakers at the new Safeway Retail Bakeries in Burlingame and Los Gatos, California are now members ofย BCTGM Local 24 (San Francisco).ย  According to Local 24 Financial Secretary Joe Biringer, the local union contacted the bakers after the new retail outlets opened. ย The local organized the two bakeries, consisting of bakery managers, journeyman bakers, apprentice bakers, cake decorators, apprentice cake decorators, and donut fryers.ย  Local 24 requested and were granted voluntary recognition by Safeway. Financial Secretary Biringer...

BCTGM Local 9 (Seattle) has organized the bakers and cake decorators at three Kroger in-store bakeries in Kirkland and Bellevue, Washington. The successful campaigns were lead by Local 9 officers, according to Region 6 International Vice President Randy Roark.ย  The BCTGM welcomes the new Kroger bakers into our BCTGM union family!...