BFAWU: Warburtons, Blackpool, Closure Announcement
The announcement by Warburtons regarding the closure of their Brinwell Road site is terrible news for the workforce and terrible news for Blackpool. The workforce at Brinwell Road has built an...
View ArticleBFAWU: A Nail In The Coffin For Workfare?
Let us congratulate Cait Reilly for hopefully sounding the first death knell for 'Workfare'. The judgment of Miss Reilly’s appeal confirms what many, including Boycott Workfare and the BFAWU have been...
View ArticleBakers Food & Allied Workers Union Welfare Statement
The ideology of cuts affecting the most vulnerable people in our society is totally out of character for a nation that traditionally prides itself on bringing support to those in crisis. Over the...
View ArticleBFAWU signs historic learning agreement with Dawnfresh Seafood
The BFAWU, along with Scottish Union Learning has signed an historic learning agreement with Dawnfresh Seafood in Uddingston, which will benefit around 300 employees.
View ArticleBFAWU: Tax allowance increase welcome, but will be "wiped out" by cuts
Child care assistance is useful but the real terms cuts made to family tax credits, and the attacks on our members pay means any financial support they receive in 2015 will have been wiped out in the...
View ArticleBFAWU: No more Bedroom Tax deaths
Benefit Justice campaigners everywhere are sad and bitter at the heartbreaking death of Stephanie Bottrill. The Government's attack on benefits must not be allowed to kill another person.
View ArticleBFAWU: The question is can you afford not to be in a Union
Workers in the UK are having their rights cynically and maliciously stolen from them by a vindictive and cruel government; but there’s an incredible number of people who don't realise what the...
View ArticleBFAWU president condemns Tory led government cuts, legal changes, and warns...
Addressing the annual 2013 BFAWU conference in Bridlington at the Spa Ian Hodson – president of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, said the union was at the forefront of fighting against...
View ArticleBFAWU: Ed Miliband must "put clear blue water" between Labour and Tories
BFAWU leader calls on Labour leader Ed Miliband to put clear “blue water” between the Labour Party and the Conservatives, warning that support for from the trade unions for Labour “must be reciprocated.”
View ArticleBFAWU calls for curb on supermarket power
BFAWU calls for action on supermarkets below cost selling, workplace temperatures, and “bakers asthma” following damning parliamentary report from Labour MP Dave Crausby.
View ArticleBFAWU: Leading economist calls for end to austerity
Leading economist tells BFAWU activists to pressure Labour to dump cuts rhetoric in favour of investment.
View ArticleBFAWU: More workers killed in construction industry than soldiers killed in...
Further cuts to health and safety executive will lead to increased deaths at work, warns the BFAWU.
View ArticleBFAWU: Bedroom Tax is "worse than anything Thatcher could muster"
BFAWU leader calls for mass action against “cruel and evil” policy.
View ArticleBFAWU leader condemns far right extremist groups for taking advantage of...
Ronnie Draper – General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union made the comments as union activists urged mobilisation against UKIP, to expose their “racist policies” and that electing...
View ArticleBFAWU: Fighting the Condem attack on disabled people
Disabled people in this country have not experienced an attack like we are facing now since before we started battling our way out of the institutions in the early 1970s. Despite cuts to benefits and...
View ArticleBFAWU: "If the unions really bankroll Labour, we’re getting a pretty poor...
It’s now clear that the real issue of corruption in politics is the influence of lobbyists, who have been found paying huge amounts of money to political parties. It has been suggested that these...
View ArticleBFAWU: Strike action at Hovis (Premier Foods), Wigan
The Hovis strikes are about the casualisation of the food industry and a race to the bottom.
View ArticleBFAWU: Yes, there is an alternative to austerity
Working people are disillusioned but successes like the Wigan strike show what is possible.
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