On a snowy and cold Veterans Day, former BCTGM Local 300 workers and Veterans together with the Union Veterans Council and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre marched to the Chicago headquarters of Mondelez International to deliver a letter to the new CEO. And this is what happened…
Read MoreTwo hardworking and dedicated BCTGM Local 300 members, LaDonna and Michael, explain what it is like when your job making Nabisco Oreos for Nabisco/Mondelēz is being outsourced to Mexico because of corporate greed. The #NabiscoShareholderShowdown rally will send a loud and clear message to Mondelēz shareholders, board members and other corporate officers that this business plan […]
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The #NabiscoShareholderShowdown rally will send a loud and clear message to Mondelēz shareholders, board members and other corporate officers that this business plan is destructive to family-sustaining employment, meaningful job and retirement security and the viability of communities that have been adversely impacted the decisions of company executives. Wednesday, May 17 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. […]
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CEO pay for major U.S. companies has risen nearly 6 percent, as income inequality and outsourcing of good-paying American jobs have increased. According to the new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch, the average CEO of an S&P 500 company made $13.1 million per year in 2016 – 347 times more money than the average rank-and-file worker. The […]
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Nabisco/Mondelez worker Michael Smith was invited as a special guest of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka during the Federation President’s major address at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Check out what else President Trumka had to say about Nabisco/Mondelez: We want to rebuild the ladder and change the rules of our economy for […]
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Millions of union members and activists around the globe joined together yesterday to mark the one year anniversary of the 600 layoffs of BCTGM Local 300 members from the Mondelēz/Nabisco Chicago bakery. The BCTGM’s Digital Day of Action received the full support of the AFL-CIO and its 55 affiliated Unions. From teachers (AFT), Nurses (NNU), […]
Read MoreThe AFL-CIO Executive Council has approved a new National Good Jobs campaign that will expose and challenge the corporate outsourcing of jobs by American companies, choosing Mondelēz International as its first example of greed over good. The AFL-CIO has issued the following press release: March 14, 2017 Mondelēz (Nabisco/Oreo)Will Be the First Solidarity Campaign (San Antonio, March […]
Read MoreHear from Ladonna and Michael, our sister and brother from BCTGM Local 300, who lost their jobs to outsourcing and Nabisco’s corporate greed.
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“Irene has made over $20 million dollars a year, for the last nine years. That is roughly 300 times that of the average Mondelez employee.” “For a CEO to make that much and refuse to leave our jobs in Chicago, to send them to Mexico, that’s a slap in our face. Irene Rosenfeld – you […]
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Campaign encourages Americans to “Check the Label” in support of American jobs by purchasing only those Nabisco products made in America KENSINGTON, Md., April 27, 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 – announced […]
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