Recently it has seemed as if it were impossible to turn the page in a newspaper without reading about more potential industrial action in the food manufacturing industry. Companies such as Nestlé UK, Coca-Cola, Tunnock’s, Bakkavör and Maple Leaf Bakery...
A temporary ceasefire has been called at CCE’s Edmonton bottling plant, with trade union Unite calling off strike action ahead of talks to resolve an ongoing pay dispute.
Disgruntled staff at the Tunnock's factory in Uddingston have announced a fresh wave of strikes later this month, but agreed to talk to company bosses in the meantime via arbitration service ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service).
The CBI has unveiled a package of proposals to ‘modernise employment relations legislation’ including raising the threshold for industrial action and allowing businesses to recruit staff through agencies to cover stoppages.
Unite members at Coca-Cola Enterprises’ Edmonton (CCE’s) factory have downed tools again yesterday in the latest in a series of strikes and warned of further stoppages unless the soft drinks firm raises its 2% pay offer.
More than 360 staff out of 500 employed at the Tunnock's caramel wafer and teacake factory in Uddingston, Glasgow, downed tools yesterday and will strike again next Tuesday.
A wave of strikes at Coca-Cola’s Edmonton plant that was scheduled to begin today has been suspended after members of the Unite union and company bosses agreed to return to the negotiating table.
Staff at Maple Leaf Bakery UK’s Walsall factory will begin strikes next week after a trade union reballot produced a majority of members in favour of action.
Members of the Unite union at Vion’s chicken processing plant in Llangefni will meet next Wednesday (September 8) to decide whether to take industrial action over pay after the results of a ballot were announced this week.
Strike action by staff at Maple Leaf Bakery UK’s Walsall factory has been delayed due to a technicality and a reballot is now being conducted, according to the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU).
The threat of industrial action at Coca-Cola plants across the UK has been averted after unions agreed to call off a strike ballot and get back around the negotiating table.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) faces industrial action at 12 UK plants this summer after unions launched a strike ballot in a bid to secure national bargaining over pay and pensions.
Unite the union is threatening a 1,300-strong workforce strike at Cadbury if the company does not honour its three year pay deal.Unite is angry that...
Until it was called off, Asda stores across the country were threatened with empty shelves following a vote in favour of strike action by staff at 20...
The airline caterer Gate Gourmet has sent compulsory dismissal letters to 144 of the 713 employees it attempted to get rid of this summer following a...
Both Carlsberg and Scottish Courage faced strike action this month over proposed changes to their pay structures.A 16-day strike was planned from the...
