During a press conference held at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington D.C., Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) released a detailed report, “Breaking Faith: Outsourcing and the Damage Done to our Communities” that reveals the impact of Mondélez-Nabisco’s outsourcing and exploitation of workers in both the U.S. and Mexico. Over the last several months, Interfaith Worker Justice led […]
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Representatives from the Interfaith Workers Justice (IWJ), along with workers’ rights activists from FLOC, Texas AFL-CIO and others, took their six-city investigation into Mondelēz International to Monterrey, Mexico on Monday to speak with workers there and deliver a powerful message on behalf of the BCTGM Nabisco 600. A press conference from the Telephone Workers Union hall in Monterrey […]
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“As long as Nabisco/Mondelez continues to outsource good, middle-class jobs and exploit working families across the globe – the BCTGM will be relentless in our efforts to expose the company’s destructive business model and expand the boycott of Nabisco products made in Mexico. Today was a strong testament to the solidarity and resolve of the […]
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On May 17, when company decision makers gather for the annual Mondelēz Shareholders Meeting in Lincolnshire, Ill. (25 miles north of Chicago), BCTGM Nabisco/Mondelēz workers, BCTGM local unions, supporters and activists will be there to protest the company’s failed business model that destroys American jobs, exploits workers, and devastates communities. Please join us for the […]
Read MoreOn May 17, BCTGM members who work for Mondelēz/Nabisco, together with other BCTGM local union members, community activists and representatives from the AFL-CIO and IUF, will rally before the start of the 2017 Mondelēz shareholder meeting in Lincolnshire, Ill. The demonstration will help further spotlight the corporate greed and worker-exploiting business model of the global […]
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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), […]
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“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 working employees of Chicago to […]
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March 23rd marks one year since Mondelēz/Nabisco began laying off workers from the Chicago bakery and sending their jobs to Salinas, Mexico. Now, workers toiling under exploitive conditions in Mexico produce the formerly made-in-the U.S. Nabisco products that are shipped back to American consumers. The Nabisco 600 and the Check the Label campaign has gained […]
Read MoreAlliance for Retired Americans members have joined the AFL-CIO in a boycott of Mexican-made Oreos and other Mexican-made Nabisco products. The boycott is a result of Nabisco’s announcement last July that it would invest an additional $130 million in a Mexican plant rather than its American factory in Chicago. As a result 600 workers in […]
Read More[Triangle, VA] United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts said today that the union fully supports the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) in its boycott of Mexican-made Nabisco products. Nabisco recently announced that it is moving more than 600 American jobs in Chicago to a production […]
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