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The London
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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. |
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The London
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Kellogg Canada Inc., 100
Kellogg Lane , London, ON N6A 4P9 |
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The History
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 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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