Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union
January/ February 2019
Volume 21 Number 1
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UNION SOLIDARITY Guides the Movement
Over the last year, working people across the United States and Canada have gone to great lengths to fight back against a broken economic system and the politicians who help to sustain this defective model. For multiple generations, working families have seen good, middle-class jobs disappear, while the top 1% continue to have control over an ever-expanding piece of the economic pie. Governments at all levels are passing policies that hurt working people: tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and the largest corporations; trade pacts that do not protect American and Canadian jobs from being exported to low-wage countries; restricting or eliminating labor and occupational health & safety standards; diverting government resources away from school, infrastructure, childcare and community development; and allowing a retirement security crisis to worsen. The response from the labor movement, including the BCTGM, has been emphatic: we will not stand idly by while our livelihoods are dismantled and our communities and families are devastated. We will fight back. When teachers struck from West Virginia to Arizona, the fight was not only over wages and benefits, but also about class sizes, funding for public education and teacher training. On those picket lines, teachers were not alone as the entire labor movement supported their courageous actions. BCTGM local unions walked the line with striking teachers in Los Angeles and Chicago and supported their social media campaigns by keeping our membership informed and active. When the federal government was shut down by the President of the United States, the BCTGM stood arm-in-arm with our brothers and sisters who were furloughed, forced to work without a paycheck, or were among the millions affected by this unnecessary action. The shutdown may have been about funding a wall, but what brought members from the AFL-CIO affiliates together was a desire to express to our elected officials that we will not stand for tax cuts for the wealthy, while the government penny-pinches its employees and ignores crumbling bridges, schools and highways. What we have also witnessed is union and non-union workers fighting side by side to improve state minimum wage rates, strengthen worker compensation laws, and overhaul a broken health care system. In recent months, local union leaders, members and retirees have reached out to tell me how proud they are of the BCTGM’s strong advocacy on retirement security. Again, this is an issue that has brought together many different unions in the battle to preserve and protect our members’ hard-earned collectively bargained pensions and the plans that provide those benefits. The BCTGM has placed the highest priority on preserving and strengthening our members’ pensions. Now, more than ever, BCTGM members in every one of our shops, along with our retirees, must remain united in solidarity in order to defend their pension plans. 2
The harsh economic reality is that if employers are successful in getting out of our pension funds and discontinuing defined pensions for new workers, existing and future pension benefits will become severely threatened for everyone covered, active or retired. It is vital that Congress address the nation’s growing pension funding crisis. The BCTGM believes that a legislative solution which provides pension plans with the funding necessary for long-term solvency without forcing trustees to reduce participants’ hard-earned pension benefits is critical for our members’ retirement security. Last year, the BCTGM worked extremely hard in support of legislation that strengthens pension plans and avoids retiree benefit reductions through long-term, low-interest loans. While enormous progress was made, Congress did not pass the legislation. However, hope for a legislative solution to America’s pension funding crisis was renewed on January 3 when the new 116th Congress convened. The legislation, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, H.R. 397, is a top priority for the House leadership and for the labor movement. We call upon all active members, retirees and their families across this union to join the fight for legislation to help protect multiemployer pension plans. (See page 4-5) The fight to preserve BCTGM pensions is urgent and ongoing. Active members and retirees can be assured that the BCTGM International Union is actively engaged in this fight on every level – from the plant floor and negotiating table to the halls of Congress. We will never give up protecting the retirement security of every BCTGM member and retiree. - David B. Durkee, BCTGM International President
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Official Publication of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union 10401 Connecticut Avenue, Kensington, Maryland 20895-3961 (301) 933-8600 www.bctgm.org David B. Durkee, Editor Corrina A. Christensen, Assistant Editor BCTGM General Executive Board President David B. Durkee • Secretary-Treasurer Steve Bertelli Vice Presidents Shad Clark • Jethro Head Arthur Montminy • Ron Piercey • Anthony Shelton BCTGM General Executive Board Members Joyce Alston • John Bethel • Thomas Bingler • Richard Davis Pierre Luc Ducet • Paul LaBuda • Terry Lansing Earl Lublow • Letitia Malone • Gary Oskoian • Paula Steig Doyle Townson • Jeff Webb • Donald Woods BCTGM News (ISSN 1525-4860) is published bi-monthly by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, 10401 Connecticut Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895-3961. Periodicals postage paid at Kensington, MD and at additional mailing offices. Subscription to new members only. Postmaster: Send address changes to BCTGM News, 10401 Connecticut Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895-3961.
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Solidarity Protest
BCTGM International Secretary-Treasurer Steve Bertelli, Assistant to the International President Harry Kaiser and Director of Research & Education Matthew Clark joined U.S. postal workers and supporters who rallied outside the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C. to protest the Canadian Liberal government’s decision to legislate Canadian Postal Workers back to work.
Dimondstein. The event was organized to show solidarity with Canada Post workers. In November 2018, lawmakers in Ottawa passed legislation that forced striking postal workers to return to work and resume their duties. The legislation also appointed a mediator to arbitrate an end to the Crown Corporation’s dispute with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Those efforts broke down in December. The arbitration process is aimed at reaching settlements that would be imposed on Canada Post and its 42,000 urban carriers and 8,000 rural and suburban employees. During last year’s rotating walkouts, Canada Post requested that its foreign partners halt deliveries to Canada while job action was underway. Meanwhile, in the United States, the White House has proposed to sell the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to private corporations.
The rally, sponsored by the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), was led by APWU President Mark
U.S. Postal Service Under Attack More than 550,000 postal workers benefit from a union contract, but if the White House sells the U.S. Postal Service to private corporations, wages, benefits and protections will disappear. Meanwhile, postal privatization would lead to higher prices and less service for hundreds of millions of Americans. On January 9, a bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives took action to help combat the proposal to privatize the Postal Service by introducing House Resolution 33. Stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at the American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers and contact your members of Congress to let them know you support maintaining a public Postal Service: usmailnotforsale.org/take-action Scott Detweiler January/Feburary 2019
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Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act Introduced in House In one of its first actions in the 116th Congress, the powerful House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on a bipartisan bill that would channel long-term, low-interest loans to collectively bargained multiemployer pension plans. Introduced by Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), the new Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (H.R. 397). The BCTGM has been a leader in the effort to secure federal legislation to address the country’s growing pension funding crisis— which affects virtually every BCTGM member with a collectively bargained pension. Last year, the BCTGM worked extremely hard in support of legislation that strengthens pension plans and avoids retiree benefit reductions through long-term, low-interest loans. The Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (H.R. 397) is similar to the pension legislation supported by the BCTGM in the last Congress that was introduced by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Congressman Neal. The Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (H.R. 397), which has bipartisan support, would establish the Pension Rehabilitation Administration, 4
a new agency within the Department of the Treasury, authorized to issue bonds to finance loans to pension funds such as the B&C Pension Fund to ensure their long term solvency. Such multiemployer plans would be loaned enough assets to fund pension obligations for all participants in pay status at the time the loan is made. No benefit cuts would be required to qualify for the loans. In a press statement following the legislation’s introduction, Neal said that of the roughly 10 million Americans covered by about 1,400 multiemployer plans, 1.5 million are in plans that are quickly running out of money. “These are American workers who planned for their retirement, who year after year chose to contribute to their pensions instead of taking a wage increase,” he said. “Now, after working for decades, their planned retirements may be taken away from them. And taken away at a time when they’re no longer able to prepare for retirement because they’re now in retirement.” After starting work last year, the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans failed to produce a bipartisan solution to the financial crisis in those plans by the November 30 deadline, though the Committee made significant progress. As of press time, there are 72 co-sponsors of the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (H.R.397). BCTGM News
Take ACTION to:
PROTECT our PENSION$ The United States is facing a growing pension funding crisis.
While the problem is currently most severe in multiemployer plans, there is the potential that the crisis, if not adequately addressed, will eventually negatively impact all defined benefit pension plans. This crisis can be addressed if Congress takes necessary and appropriate action.
The Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (H.R. 397), which has bipartisan support, would establish the Pension Rehabilitation Administration, a new agency within the Department of the Treasury, authorized to issue bonds to finance loans to pension funds such as the B&C Pension Fund to ensure their long term solvency. Such multiemployer plans would be channeled enough assets to fund pension obligations for all participants in pay status at the time the loan is made. No benefit cuts would be required to qualify for the loans. Join the thousands of BCTGM members and retirees across the U.S. who have sent emails to Congress urging them to pass legislation to adequately address the growing pension funding crisis.
Contact your U.S. Representative today and ask them to support the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, H.R. 397.
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BCTGM Joins STRIKING L.A. Teachers Less than a month into 2019, the teachers of Los Angeles have proven that last year’s wave of collective action isn’t quieting down. After taking to the streets in a strike that captured the country’s imagination, members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) returned to classrooms on January 23 after overwhelmingly approving a paradigm-shifting contract that delivers on key demands. BCTGM Local 37 (Los Angeles) members picketed with teachers in Oakland, Calif. Every L.A. school site—more than 900—participated in the strike, culminating in a 50,000-person march to the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD’s) headquarters an January 14.
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on Picket Lines
For six days, more than 30,000 UTLA teachers went on strike to shine a light on the daily realities of a neglected and underfunded public school system. They demanded better, and by standing strong together, the teachers won. “For too long teachers have lived with a hard truth to tell—that for years our students were being starved of the resources they need,” said UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl following the vote. “Our expectations were fundamentally raised by this strike. Together, we said we deserve better, our students deserve better. We must keep our expectations high and not let go of this moment, because the next struggle is right around the corner.”
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Townsend Graduates from
Harvard Trade Union Program BCTGM Southern Region International Representative Zach Townsend says representing the BCTGM in his successful completion of the 2019 Harvard Trade Union Program (HTUP) was “truly a great honor and opportunity.” Townsend was selected by BCTGM International President David Durkee to attend the program. President Durkee is a 1991 HTUP graduate. The Harvard Trade Union Program was established in the early 1940’s and is considered to be one of the preeminent courses in North America devoted to developing trade union leaders and activists. The 108th Session of the HTUP was held January 7 through February 15 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The theme of this year’s program was, “Preparing Leadership for the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow.” The focus of the intensive six week program includes Strategic Planning, Organizational Theory, Leadership, Union Governance, and Capital Strategies. The course is open to union officers, staff and activists from all corners of the world. Since its inception, the program has featured some of the most respected and admired speakers and teachers in organized labor, academia, government, and progressive community. Richard F. Griffin, Jr. former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board was the keynote speaker at the 108th HTUP 2019 graduation. January/Feburary 2019
The BCTGM boasts an impressive list of HTUP graduates including President Durkee in 1991; Strategic Campaign Coordinator Ron Baker in 1986; Southern Region International Representative Jason Davis in 2016; Southern Region International Representative David Woods in 2017; and, Assistant to the Strategic Campaign Coordinator Nate Zeff in 2018. According to Townsend, the program was an incredible learning opportunity. “It has been a true honor to attend and represent the BCTGM,” says Townsend. “The program offered multiple subjects that contained very informative literature and will be beneficial in assisting me in the near future. I have a better understanding of arbitration, negotiations, and the mediation process. This program taught me how to deal with problems and engage in a more diplomatic resolution,” Townsend concludes.
Richard F. Griffin, Jr. former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, delivered the keynote speech at the HTUP graduation. Townsend (left) is pictured here with Griffin.
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2019 Government Sh At 35 days, the government shutdown that began on December 22, 2018, was the longest in U.S. history with roughly one-quarter of the
government shuttered, and an estimated 800,000 workers furloughed or forced to work without pay. But those of us in the labor movement know that this was much more than a “shutdown” of the Federal Government. “Let’s call this shutdown what it is: It’s a Lockout,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) President J. David Cox Sr. said, “this effort at extortion is more of a lockout than a shutdown. But maybe an even more accurate description of this is that it’s a shakedown.”
Throughout the five week government shutdown, thousands of working people took to the streets of Washington, D.C., to send a clear message to the president and Congress to stop the shutdown and let federal government employees get to work. Thousands more rallied at other locations around the country. Facing a politically motivated crisis, federal workers desperately needed the solidarity and backing of the labor movement. Leaping into action over the days and weeks of the shutdown, the BCTGM joined together with the AFL-CIO and other affiliates to mobilize the full resources of the labor movement behind them. With the support of affiliates, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka successfully lobbied senators in
BCTGM Intl. Pres. David Durkee on the AFL-CIO Exec. Council stage outside the Federation’s headquarters during the Jan. 10 rally to stop the shutdown.
On Jan. 10, BCTGM Intl. Pres. David Durkee (center), Intl. Secy.-Treas. Steve Bertelli (left), Asst. to Intl. Pres. Harry Kaiser (right) and International staff attended a rally and march to the White House.
Outside the White House on Jan. 10 is BCTGM Intl. Pres. David Durkee (right), Intl. Secy.-Treas. Steve Bertelli (center), Asst. to Intl. Pres. Harry Kaiser (left).
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ShutdownSolidarity halting consideration of any legislation until the government was reopened. Using the AFL-CIO’s tollfree hotline, thousands of union members contacted their senators to strengthen the effort. In addition to the rallies in D.C., BCTGM members around the country mobilized in their state federations and central labor councils to turn out members for satellite rallies in dozens of communities across the country—from Oregon and Pennsylvania to California and New York—demanding an immediate end to the shutdown and highlighting the fact that many of the workers locked out during the shutdown live outside of the nation’s capital. Shortly before the shutdown came to an end, labor moved protests to the corridors of Congress. AFGE President Cox and his members occupied a
David Durkee (left) was joined outside AFL-CIO headquarters rnie Sanders (I-Vt.).
portion of the Hart Senate Office Building for 33 minutes—one minute to mark every day of the federal government shutdown. On January 25, air traffic controllers brought flights in several of the nation’s busiest airports to a crawl. Hours after the Federal Aviation Authority announced severe delays at LaGuardia, Newark, and Hartsfield-Jackson airports, Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, publicly urged her members to mobilize “immediately” against the shutdown by visiting the offices of their congressional representatives. “If air traffic controllers can’t do their jobs, we can’t do ours,” she said. Hours later, President Trump announced an agreement to reopen the government temporarily.
BCTGM International Officers and staff attended a rally at Nationals Park in Washington, DC where Senate Republicans were gathered for a retreat.
On Jan. 15, L. 114 (Portland, Ore.) Secy.-Treas. Darren Hamann (left) and L. 114 Bus. Agt. Alejandro Ahumadab (right) were among Federal government employees and supporters who rallied outside Portland International Airport to bring attention to the partial government shutdown. “No to the wall, paychecks for all,” the group chanted while holding signs outside arrivals.
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BUILDING Local 25 (Chattanooga, Tenn.) stewards from Kellogg’s sharpen their skills during a one-day program led by Local 25 Business Agent/Financial Secretary/GEB member Jeff Webb and retired Local 611 officer Larry Altman.
Local 25 stewards review grievance handling procedures.
Local 347G (Danville, Ill.) stewards from Quaker Oats successfully refreshed skills during a one-day training led by Midwest International Vice President Jethro Head.
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hroughout North America and from every sector of the Union, the International Union takes great pride in the education and training of BCTGM shop stewards. According to International President David Durkee, shop stewards are the foundation of the union and it is through stewards that a local union is able to exercise democracy in the workplace and have a level of control. “Stewards are absolutely instrumental in signing up new members, educating members about their rights and the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement, enforcing health and safety standards, and communicating with members about economic and political issues,” said Durkee. The International Union administers its steward training program through the BCTGM
Reviewing their welcome packets and BCTGM International Constitution are Local 25 stewards in Rome, Ga.
Local 347G (Danville, Ill.) stewards review health and safety precautions as outlined in the union contract.
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ducation Research & Education Department. Matthew Clark, the director of the International’s Research & Education Department, works closely with BCTGM International Vice Presidents and Representatives to design curriculum, presentations, activities and information. The majority of the steward programs are led by BCTGM International Vice Presidents and Representatives in local union facilities throughout North America. The curriculum may differ based on the size of a class or seniority of the stewards, but all programs include sections on grievance handling, communicating with members, mobilizing union activists, workplace health and safety, and roleplaying scenarios. In 2018, approximately 922 stewards, from 42 local unions in the United States and Canada successfully completed a BCTGM steward training program.
Local 492 (Philadelphia) shop stewards met for a one day training.
East-Central International Vice President Art Montminy explains the rights and responsibilities of shop stewards to a group of Local 492 (Philadelphia) stewards.
Local 25 Business Agent/Financial Secretary/ GEB member Jeff Webb led a one day training for the stewards of Rich Products.
Local 25 stewards from Tyson’s in Rome, Ga. successfully completed a new stewards training seminar in December. Memphis, Tenn. BCTGM Locals 149 and 390G held a combined shop stewards training.
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Senator Tours Bakery BCTGM Local 6 (Philadelphia) members at Bimbo Bakeries USA recently met with U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) when he toured the Lehigh Valley, Pa. plant. Union members urged Casey to support legislation that would help address the country’s multiemployer pension funding crisis, specifically, H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act. Casey told the Local 6 members he was committed to finding a solution to help strengthen and protect workers’ pension plans. Pictured left to right is L. 6 member Corey Walter, L. 6 Bus. Agt. Danny Melendez, Sen. Casey and L. 6 Pres. Hank McKay.
Sen. Casey (left) listens to L. 6 member Steve Gulsby (right) explain why passing legislation to protect multiemployer pension plans is vital to workers.
War Hero, Union Veteran BCTGM L. 114 (Portland, Ore.) retiree Patrick Smith received the surprise of his lifetime the summer of 2018 when he answered a knock at his door and found the Counsel General of Korea (for Oregon). The Counsel General presented Smith with the Ambassador of Peace award on behalf of the Korean Government for his service during the Korean War. Smith was initiated into L. 114 in June 1949. Shortly after, he joined the U.S. Air Force and piloted B-29 Invader Fighter Planes during dozens of missions. After leaving the Air Force in 1953, Smith returned to the L. 114 and retired in 1993 from the Clackamas Fred Meyer Bakery, currently known as Kroger Clackamas Bakery. Patrick is 87 years old. 12
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Legislative Action
Powerful Women
BCTGM Intl. Rep. Randy Fulk (right) and N.C. Governor Roy Cooper at the 2019 N.C. Labor Legislative Conference in Raleigh, N.C. on Feb. 12-13. The annual event combines training on N.C. labor’s legislative agenda with a Labor Lobby Day to advocate a working people’s agenda. Fulk is a N.C. State AFL–CIO Vice Pres. and Exec. Board Member.
Local 433 (Sioux City, Iowa) Pres./Bus. Agt./ GEB member Paula Steig visited Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in early January at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Sioux City, Iowa where the Massachusetts Senator delivered a “barn-raising” speech prior to announcing her candidacy in the 2020 Presidential election.
Union Proud
50 Year Gold Cards
Local 37 (Los Angeles) member Willie Mae Thompson (right) works at the ADM mill in Los Angeles. She recently stopped by the union hall to complete some paper work and visit her local union officers. Pictured here with Thoyson is L. 37 Fin. Secy. Jose Hernandez (left).
On December 13, 2018, BCTGM L. 719 (Fairlawn, N.J.) Fin. Secy.Treas./Bus. Agt. Stan Milewski (center) proudly presented BCTGM 50-year Service Awards to members Stanley Rozum (left) and Elizabeth Bennett (right). Bennett started working at the Fairlawn Nabisco plant on Oct. 1, 1967 and Rozum went to work at the plant exactly one year later on Oct. 1, 1968. Both Rozum and Bennett received certificates and honorary BCTGM Gold Cards marking their more than 50 years as dedicated union members.
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Local 42 Embraces Organizing in the South Representing workplaces in Rightto-Work (for less) states is always a challenge, especially in industries with a high turnover rate. It can be
especially difficult when the local union represents nearly 20 different facilities, hundreds of miles apart. Navigating such challenges is part of the fabric that makes up the dedicated efforts of BCTGM Local 42 in Atlanta. The Local represents thousands of workers throughout the state at employers including Mondelez, Kellogg’s, Hostess Brands and Treehouse Foods. Local 42 has always been an organizing local union. As older shops have closed, the Local has organized new facilities. In recent years, Local 42 has organized workers at a peanut processing plant in Alabama owned by Archer Daniels Midland as well as a large Hostess Brands facility in Columbus, Ga. However, the local union officers have set a goal to increase their “internal” organizing efforts and increase the number of non-members signed up in the shops already represented by Local 42. Director of Organization John Price says the key to internal organizing is communication. “We need to be sure that every worker learns about the benefits of BCTGM membership, that their concerns and needs are addressed, and that they understand how the entire union’s strength and leverage is bolstered by their membership,” said Price. According to Price, it is important to target BCTGM Intl. Dir. of Organization John Price explains strategies to strengthen L. 42’s membership through internal organizing. Intl. Southern Region Vice Pres. Anthony Shelton is pictured seated on the left.
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From left to right is Intl. Rep. Jason Davis, L. 42 members Aaron Lucky, Alvin Colston, Tommie York, L. 42 Bus. Agt. David Cooper, L. 42 Internal Organizer Darrell Copeland, Intl. Rep. David Woods, (left to right, seated) Myra Billings and Theresa Marshall.
plants where union membership has declined and where contracts are expiring, educate stewards on the importance of signing up new hires, and communicate with union members within each facility that uniting together would benefit them all in the form of superior collective agreements. One of the facilities Local 42 wanted to focus on building its union membership is the Hostess plant in Columbus. To aid in this goal, the Local officers reached out Price and asked him to lead a one-day internal organizing training in January. Price assisted Local 42 in developing an internal organizing plan that involves distributing “new member kits” to new employees that contains information on the union, the benefits, and contact information. Additionally, the Local has mapped out plant visits to “talk union” to non-members, answer questions about the union and the collective bargaining agreement. “Continuously educating and organizing new workers at the bakery is vital to maintaining union strength in this right-to-work state,” reflects BCTGM Southern Region Vice President Anthony Shelton. “And with union strength inside the plant comes union power at the bargaining table. Local 42 is dedicated and focused on their goal.”
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HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS (HOOP) Coalition
and get involved in the fight to defend and preserve pensions!
You can be part of a team of concerned retirees and dynamic supporters fighting to preserve retiree pensions at Mondelez/Nabisco. Along with assisting the BCTGM’s legislative efforts in Congress, Mondelez/Nabisco retirees can significantly help in the union’s fight to preserve their rights and pension benefits.
HOOP membership includes: • Updates on the Mondelez/Nabisco campaign to defend workers’ pensions • Information on how the BCTGM International is fighting on Capitol Hill to preserve and protect Social Security, Medicare, and other important senior programs • Quarterly newsletter Please Print Clearly & Mail To: HOOP Coalition c/o BCTGM International Union 10401 Connecticut Ave., 4th Floor Kensington, MD 20895 Name: ________________________________ Address: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Phone: _______________________________ Email: ________________________________ Retired? Yes No Willing to come to an event near you? Yes No Send me the newsletter: Yes No Past BCTGM Member? Yes No BCTGM Supporter? Yes No
“I would ask that you please make every effort to recruit your family members, friends, fellow retirees and other supporters in the community to join HOOP. The more voices, the more power and the sooner we win the fight to preserve and protect the pensions for which we have all fought and worked so hard.” – BCTGM International President David B. Durkee in letter to HOOP members