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BCTGM-Made,
Holidays
Delight your friends and loved ones with holiday treats made by hard-working BCTGM members! Allan Candy Canes (Hershey Company) Allan Traditional Candy Canes (Peppermint, Cherry and Mini Peppermint), Allan Holiday Collection Candy Canes (French Vanilla & Gingerbread, Butterscotch & Cappucino, Mini Canes), Allan Fruit Buddies Candy Canes, Allan Chewy Candy Canes.Local 350T (Granby, Quebec) Annabelle Candy Company Rocky Road, Abba Zaba, Look, Big Hunk and U-No.Boyer Candies: Mallo cups, Peanut Butter cups, triple twist pretzels.Local...
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Education,
Scholarships
On April 16, 2020, the BCTGM International General Executive Board voted to rename the BCTGM International Scholarship Program to the David B. Durkee Memorial Scholarship Program. The program is a tribute to the legacy of President Durkee and the high value he placed on learning and education. The BCTGM International Union has been awarding scholarships to union families since 1962. These five exceptional BCTGM children were chosen from a total of 59 applicants. Each winner...
H.R. 6559 – The COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020 would require OSHA to issue a standard to protect essential workers like BCTGM members – on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to send a letter to Congress urging their immediate support for H.R. 6559: The COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020. BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton sent this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives to urge passage of H.R....
On April 8, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) substantially weakened workplace protections for essential infrastructure workers โ like BCTGM members โ from COVID-19. The new CDC guidelines for businesses allows employers to require workers who have been exposed to COVID-19 to continue to work following exposure, provided they remain asymptomatic and some additional precautions are implemented. โThis recommendation to put essential workers back to work after being exposed to COVID-19 is irresponsible...
The IUF is leading a mass rally in Istanbul today that brings together trade unions and their political and civic allies in support of a long-running fight against worker rights abuses at Cargill Turkey. In April last year 14 workers were dismissed after they joined a union at the companyโs starch and sugar factory in Bursa-Orhangazi โ a Cargill facility where Turkish courts have confirmed a history of repeated firings for union activity. Cargill, it...
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BCTGM-Made,
Holidays
Plan to buy gifts to give this holiday season? If you buy union, you’re helping keep good jobs in America and supporting businesses that pay working families a living wage with benefits. Union-made gifts and services can be hard to find. Here are some ideas to consider: Clothing American Rootswear is 100% American Made, Union Made! The company mission: “To create good jobs in the United States, deliver a quality product, have a commitment to...
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Mondelez
During a press conference held at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington D.C., Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) released a detailed report, โBreaking Faith: Outsourcing and the Damage Done to our Communitiesโย that reveals the impact of Mondรฉlez-Nabiscoโs outsourcing and exploitation of workers in both the U.S. and Mexico. Over the last several months, Interfaith Worker Justice led a coalition of faith and labor representatives to cities where BCTGM members produce Nabisco products at Mondรฉlez-Nabisco bakeries.ย In each...
Delight your friends and loved ones with holiday treats made by hard-working BCTGM members! Listed here is a sampling of the BCTGM-contracted companies that produce seasonal specialtiesโฆ Allan Candy Company Allan Traditional Candy Canes (Peppermint, Cherry and Mini Peppermint), Allan Holiday Collection Candy Canes (French Vanilla & Gingerbread, Butterscotch & Cappucino, Mini Canes), Allan Fruit Buddies Candy Canes, Allan Chewy Candy Canes. BCTGM Local 350T (Granby, Quebec) ย Dare Foods Limited A variety of gums,...
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BCTGM-Made,
Holidays
Delight your friends and loved ones with holiday treats made by hard-working BCTGM members! Listed here is a small sampling of holiday sweets made by BCTGM members in the U.S. and Canada. Allan Candy Company Allan Traditional Candy Canes (Peppermint, Cherry and Mini Peppermint), Allan Holiday Collection Candy Canes (French Vanilla & Gingerbread, Butterscotch & Cappucino, Mini Canes), Allan Fruit Buddies Candy Canes, Allan Chewy Candy Canes. BCTGM Local 350T (Granby, Quebec) Brown & Haley...
BCTGM International President David Durkee and International Secretary Treasurer Steve Bertelli, together with locked out Local 252G Kellogg workers and AFL-CIO representatives, attended the ย Kellogg Company shareholder meeting today in Battle Creek, Mich. The AFL-CIO presented Proposal 5 to the shareholders. The proposal, put forward by Brandon Rees of the AFL-CIO Office of Investment, would require the Kellogg Company to submit a “human rights risk assessment”. President Durkee delivered a statement to the shareholders in...
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Health & Safety
JESSE NEWMAN for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 9, 2014 After an explosion at an Imperial Sugar Co. factory in Georgia killed 14 workers and injured dozens in 2008, U.S. officials promised rules for handling the well-known workplace hazard that caused it: combustible dust. Six years later, there has been little change. Now, as investigators continue to explore the possibility that dust could have caused the collapse of a feed mill in Omaha, Neb., this...
โThe opposition from employers and their strong political representatives seems sharp and constant, and in the face of these, it is our declared purpose to maintain our unity and solidarity.โ ย โ From the Declaration of Principles, BCTGM Constitution Looking at these words from the BCTGMโs Declaration of Principles, it is as if those leaders who wrote our Constitution knew exactly what our Union has been up against for the past four years and...
“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, โThe one thing I...