Fox’s Biscuits staff vote to avoid strikes
About 600 members of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) at sites in Batley, West Yorkshire and Kirkham, Preston threw out a proposal for a series of 24-hour strikes.
A spokesman for Fox’s Biscuits’ owner 2 Sisters said: “We’re pleased that employees have accepted our very attractive offer, after a lengthy process, and the union has dropped its proposed industrial action."
Industrial action
Speaking before the ballot, BFAWU regional organising secretary Geoff Atkinson told FoodManufacture.co.uk that Fox’s owner 2 Sisters was trying to impose “draconian” changes to terms and conditions at the sites, in exchange for a pay rise that was below the rate of inflation at the time pay negotiations started.
