ICYMI: Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union Endorses Joe Biden

Yesterday, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) announced their endorsement of Joe Biden for President of the United States. BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton cited Vice President Biden as the best leader “to advance the cause of economic, social and racial justice in the United States and heal our nation.”
 
BCTGM issued the following press release:
 

 
The General Executive Board of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) voted unanimously to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States.
 
“We believe that a Biden presidency offers the strongest opportunity to advance the cause of economic, social and racial justice in the United States and heal our nation,” said BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton.
 
A Biden presidency would provide much-needed and aggressive leadership on the public policy issues that matter most to BCTGM members, their families and retirees: ensuring workers the right to organize and bargain collectively; fortifying the laws and regulations protecting workers’ safety and health on the job; strengthening Social Security and Medicare and protecting earned pension benefits and guaranteeing quality public education.
 
“On each of these critical issues, President Trump and his Administration have failed working families, particularly in the areas of workplace health and safety and workers’ rights,” said Shelton.
 
The BCTGM will be actively engaged in the AFL-CIO’s Labor 2020 program across the country, in every city, state and community to ensure our message is heard loud and clear. While the methods may look a little different in the face of COVID-19, we will communicate through virtual phone banks, peer-to-peer texting, digital actions and, as always, union member-to-union member conversations.
 
“I will be calling on all of our U.S. locals and members to be enthusiastic partners in this most important political effort. There is so much at stake for working families and Unions in this year’s elections,” Shelton concluded.
 
The BCTGM International Union represents working men and women at many of the most widely recognized North American companies in the baking, candy, snack food, dairy, tobacco and grain milling industries.

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National unions representing a range of other workers and professions have also endorsed Biden, including AFL-CIO, American Postal Workers Union (APWU), the United Steelworkers Union (USW), Transport Workers Union (TWU), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), International Association of Firefighters (IAFF), United Auto Workers (UAW), International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), National Education Association (NEA), International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers (IW), Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Operative Plasterers’ & Cement Masons’ International Association (OPCMIA), and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA).

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