BCTGM Local 300 stewards Sabrina Pope (left) and Barbara Cimbalista (right) have been employees at the Nabisco factory on 73rd and Kedzie for decades. They continue to fight Mondelez’s decision to lay off six hundred workers from the factory. “I expect that all six hundred jobs stay here, I expect that we get a raise, […]
Read MoreBCTGM Midwest Region International Vice President Jethro Head is featured on labor radio, The Rick Smith Show, to explain last week’s formal complaint against Mondelēz issued by Local 300 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The complaint focuses on company discrimination based on the race and age of employees at the Chicago Nabisco plant. “Of […]
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The following article was written by Chicago Tribune reporter Greg Trotter and published online January 14. The old Nabisco bakery on Chicago’s Southwest Side, with mass layoffs looming, the bakers’ union is cranking up the heat on its employer as the two sides approach contract negotiations. Mondelez International announced in July that it would lay off […]
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On Monday, August 24, NPR Chicago broadcast a special story detailing the recent announcement by Mondelēz International that it is shipping 600 union jobs — half the plant’s workforce — to Mexico. The program includes interviews with BCTGM Local 300 members at the Chicago Bakery. The report also includes information on how the city worked with Mondelēz the last […]
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Shown here is the full text of a letter International President David Durkee sent to President Obama concerning the July 29 announcement by Mondelēz International that it intends to move hundreds of union production jobs from the historic BCTGM-represented Chicago Nabisco Bakery to the company’s low-wage facility in Mexico. This contemptible move by this greedy multi-national company epitomizes all that is wrong […]
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