
OUT IN THE COLD: Emilia Dorsu of Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union Local 50 pickets outside the Stella D’Oro cookie plant at 237th and Broadway in the Bronx shortly before Christmas. Stella D’Oro’s 136 workers have been on strike four months.
It is Christmas time, but there is little holiday cheer at the Stella D’Oro cookie factory in the Bronx. The 136 workers at the famous Italian biscuit company, members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union Local 50, have now been on strike for more than four months and it may be several more before they head back to work. The workers’ contract extension expired at the end of July and Local 50 called the strike when the owners walked out of negotiations on August 13.
Workers at the plant are disappointed that their dispute with management could not be resolved before the holidays. Read more..









