“Today’s layoff of the first 277 employees from the Nabisco Chicago Bakery should not be seen as the end of the Union’s fight to save these American jobs, but rather the launch of an intensified effort to educate the American consumer on the transfer of this work from the hard
Bakery Workers Express Astonishment over Nabisco CEO Irene Rosenfeld’s $20M Pay Day While Company Continues to Ruin American Communities KENSINGTON, Md., March 30, 2016 – Today, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), which represents nearly 4,000 members at Mondelēz International, maker of Nabisco snack products,
Representatives of the BCTGM and the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) will meet in Chicago this week for an International Trade Union Meeting that will focus on defending quality jobs at Mondelēz International around the globe. The IUF and its affiliates represent 2.5 million workers in 126 countries. The
In a June 15 letter to Mondelēz CEO Irene Rosenfeld, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) conveyed his unease over the company’s shift of production from U.S. bakeries to facilities in Mexico. Telling the CEO that his most important concern are his constituents – the hardworking members of BCTGM Local 364 employed at
Texas State Representative Armando Walle asked Mondelēz CEO Irene Rosenfeld to consider the livelihood of workers and their families if the company’s pattern of offshoring extends into Houston. In an August 9 letter, Walle implored the CEO to invest in American labor by keeping jobs in the United States. “I stand
On August 17, 12 Houston elected officials sent a letter to Mondelēz CEO Irene Rosenfeld stating, “We write to express Houston’s concern over Mondelēz’s pattern of shifting local production from industrialized communities here in the United States, to low-wage Mexico. This offshoring puts short-term profit before the suffering of American families who rely on these
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