Unions urge a YES vote on Prop 50

When you walk into the Silgan Riverbank facility, located just east of Modesto, you must wear earplugs, because everywhere around the plant, the sound of cutting, rolling, and moving cans reverberates.

As the largest provider of steel and aluminum food cans and trays in the U.S., Silgan Containers makes a variety of single, family, and institutional standard and custom cans. The Riverbank facility only makes consumer-sized cans. Silgan cans are used by America’s most recognizable food and pet food brands, including Nestlé, Del Monte Foods,
PCP, Liberty, and Juanita Foods.

Silgan promotes itself as providing sustainable food packaging: According to its website, “Metal food cans are 100% recyclable without loss of strength or quality. They have the highest recycling rate of any food package in addition to being efficient resource-savers since there is no need for refrigeration or freezing.”

Celebrating with International Transportation Services (ITS)

After seven months of negotiations with the International Transportation Service, LLC (ITS), Local 1484 arrived at an historic eight year agreement that provides significant life changing, economic improvements for the members.

“Thanks to the  amazing leadership  and contributions  made by Shop Stewards Casey Anthony and  Jeff Harton, in a collaborative effort with the  rank-and-file, we achieved a consequential, industry-  leading waterfront contract,” says Area  Director Kevin Kucera, who led the contract talks.