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Portland Bakery Union member Shad Clark made international VP for Western Region

The former Local 114 business agent has a long history as a union worker and activist.
Collective bargaining

Nabisco union standoff leads to wave of retirements

Representatives of Mondelēz unions from around the world will meet in Chicago Sept. 20-21.
Buying Union

Laid-off Nabisco workers travel the country to boycott Mexican-made Oreos

In Portland, a laid-off Chicago worker delivers a message: The fight is bigger than Mondelēz
Collective bargaining

Union standoff widens at Nabisco

BCTGM says Mondelēz’ Mexican workers are represented by a bogus company-dominated union.
Buying Union

Laid-off Nabisco workers push Mexican Oreo boycott

Boycott education teams of laid-off workers will travel the country starting in the Chicago area.
Jobs

BCTGM boycotts Made-in-Mexico Nabisco products

Consumers are asked to “Check the Label”
Union Organizing

Union campaign crushed at Portland Specialty Baking

In three weeks, union support went from 61 percent to 23 percent. Here's what happened.
Buying Union

How to tell if your Oreo Is union-made

An inkstamp on each package tells you where it was made — if you know what to look for.
People

BCTGM International taps Bakers Local 114 rep Shad Clark

Darren Hamann will replace Clark at Local 114
National

The day the Twinkie died

Hostess Brands goes out blaming unions for its demise
Oregon/Washington

Oregon Legislative session 2011 a mixed bag for labor

Oregon lawmakers wrapped up the 2011 Legislative session June 30. If there was anything memorable in it for working people, it was that lawmakers finally cut corporate tax breaks down to size … except when they were giving out new ones. It was also the year that the Oregon Legislature gave state agencies a new aspirational goal: Lay off managers, not just front-line state employees. In a state with 9.6 percent unemployment, the closest lawmakers got to passing a jobs bill was a pilot project that will employ some workers on energy efficiency retrofits of public schools, or maybe the new law removing procedural roadblocks to pipelines and other “linear” construction projects.
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