Unite the Union is preparing to ballot members at four British Sugar plants on industrial action over pay, in what could lead to the first strike action at the firm in 30 years.
The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has called off scheduled strike action at Burton’s Foods Blackpool site, after the union agreed to further talks with company management.
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) says it has called off strike action at Burton’s Foods site in Blackpool following a last-ditch challenge from the company over the validity of the ballot.
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has confirmed that strike action at Burton’s Foods Blackpool site is still set to begin tomorrow, after it emerged that union members had rejected an improved pay offer.
Staff at Burton’s Foods’ biscuit factory in Blackpool have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action, after rejecting a 1.8% pay rise from the company.
Distribution and transport staff are set to vote on strike action at Allied Bakeries’ West Bromwich distribution centre, Unite has confirmed, but the firm says it is "extremely disappointed" by the union's stance.
Northern Foods is proposing to close it Leeds office and move the majority of staff to its ‘shared service centre’ in Wakefield, FoodManufacture.co.uk has learnt, as owner Ranjit Boparan starts restructuring his new acquisition.
Vion says tough trading conditions have forced it to restructure its sausage business, and begin consulting 205 staff on plans to close a site in Sheffield.
Bosses at GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK’s) Ribena and Lucozade plant in Coleford, Gloucester, expect to be able to offer staff pay rises in 2011, but insist the pay freeze for 2010 is justified given the tough economic climate.
Bakkavör says staff have the right to demonstrate against proposed redundancies and contractual changes at its Bourne salad site, but is "disappointed" by trade union Unite’s understanding of the situation.
Trade unions are seeking urgent meetings with bosses at Northern Foods and Greencore in a bid to clarify how the proposed £40m synergy savings will be extracted if the two merge.
Trade union Unite says it will send a letter to Heinz bosses early this week telling them that workers at the firm’s Kitt Green site intend to vote on strike action.
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.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has confirmed that up to 120 staff at seven UK sites could face redundancy following a European-wide restructuring, but said “130 GB vacancies and new roles would be made available”, so that net, net, there would be an increase...
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.
Threatened strike action at Maple Leaf Bakery UK’s Walsall factory has been averted after the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) agreed a deal with management.
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.
The kind of stand-off recently seen between Unite and Cranberry Foods over workplace union recognition is unlikely to recur, according to a leading academic.
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.
Production of more than a million teacakes could be in jeopardy if a strike at leading Scottish biscuit and confectionery maker, Tunnock’s, goes ahead.
Leading UK turkey producer Cranberry Foods has denied claims by the union Unite that it breached an industry charter safeguarding workers’ unionisation rights.
Next week’s strike at Vion’s Llangefni chicken processing plant would be illegal if changes to labour laws proposed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) were to make it onto the statute books.
Industrial action will go ahead at Coca-Cola’s Edmonton facility from next Wednesday, September 15, after discussions between trade union Unite and the firm broke down.
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.
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.
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.
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 Trades Union Congress has written to business secretary Vince Cable asking him to investigate whether Twinings received EU funds to “relocate” production from the UK to a new Polish factory, given that UK jobs could be lost as a result.
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...
