Bakery Workers Union Issues Open Letter To Nabisco/Mondelez Shareholders

As Mondelez shareholders prepare to gather for the company’s annual meeting, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), which represents thousands of members at Mondelez International, issued an open letter to highlight the gap between Mondelez’s rhetoric and the reality of its corporate and social responsibility record.

In the letter, BCTGM criticizes the decision of Mondelez to close the facility in Philadelphia and the downsizing of the Chicago bakery, which lead to 1,000 job losses for the American workers.
The union also adds that Mondelez’s “well-being” rhetoric does not apply to the workers in company. “Mondelez’s actions since 2012, in particular, have sent a very clear message that it now views its workforce – and their families – as disposable. This is most evident in the company’s 2015 closure of its Philadelphia bakery, eliminating hundreds of middle-class jobs, and its massive downsizing of the Chicago bakery in 2016 that extinguished another 600 good American jobs. Despite the company’s altruistic rhetoric, therefore, we must refute any notion that Mondelez practices what it preaches,” according to the letter.
WorldBakers.com contacted Mondelez for an official comment and the information will be updated as it becomes available.