BCTGM Local Challenges Bailed-Out Bank’s Opposition to Employee Free Choice
As the battle lines are drawn on the Employee Free Choice Act, financial institutions like Citigroup and Bank of America have put their resources behind fighting the freedom to form unions and bargain—even though their resources come from taxpayer-funded bailouts.
Now, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 36G, based in Buffalo, N.Y., is fighting back. They’ve confronted the union’s bank, M&T Bank, about its membership in an anti-Employee Free Choice trade association.
