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The London Plant

The plant in London, Ontario began as the Canada Corn Company, a manufacturing facility with the rights to produce Toasted Corn Flakes for Canadian distribution. In 1924, W.K. Kellogg, bought the plant and took over production to supply all of Canada with Kellogg cereal. With a $223 million expansion that started in 1984, Kellogg Canada's 106,000 m² London plant is one of the most technologically advanced cereal manufacturing facilities within the Kellogg Company. Approximately 750,000 cartons of cereal are produced each day at the plant.

The London, Ontario facility uses computer-automated machines that perform all steps of production, from mixing the grains to packing the boxes in cartons. A monorail system carries in-process food throughout the plant and equipment is washed by high-powered jet sprays, called CIP (clean in place) technology. The plant produces more than 30 brands of breakfast cereal for all of Canada and exports approximately 30 percent of the plant's production to its parent company in the United States.

More than 95% of food and non-food, waste is recycled at the London facility.

BCTGM, Local 154-G is affiliated with The Ontario Federation of Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress.

Kellogg Canada is involved in the London community through a variety of projects and associations dedicated to the healthy growth and development of children and families. Its executives are members of the London Chamber of Commerce and sit on the board of directors of the Environmental Management Centre for Business. Kellogg donates product to local branches of the Canadian Association of Food Banks and community groups, and the company sponsors several local children's sports teams.

 

 

 

The London Plant

 

 

 

The History of Our Union

The first Union to be formed by and for Kellogg's workers in Canada was with the International Chemical Workers Union and we were designated Local 171.

The Union started at Kellogg's in 1946 and the top rate at that time was 86 cents per hour.  John (Jack) Rea was the President of the Local.  The I.C.W.'s head office was in New York and we got very poor representation.  A movement was started by some of the Union people at Kellogg's to join another Union which was the American Federation of Grain Millers.  The reason being this Union represented all the other Kellogg plants.  This was a very risky move for these people to take at that time.  They received threats and would surely have been fired if they had not succeeded.

In 1949, a vote was taken by the hourly employees at Kellogg's to disaffiliate from the I.C.W. and join the A.F.G.M.  On the 12th day of March 1949, Local 154, American Federation of Grain Millers was chartered.

The individuals who had risked so much to bring about this change became the original charter members of Local 154 A.F.G.M. and their names are immortalized on our Official Charter kept at the Union Office.  They are  John Rea, Ernie Sheppard, William Reader, Edward Cripps, Eva Drynan, Sam Nelson, Jack Ferguson, Sam Nelson, Jack Ferguson, Henry (Hank) Drake, Roy Thomas, and Alf Cogan.

 

 

 

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