{"id":16568,"date":"2018-10-24T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:08","slug":"tesco-contract-kerry-foods-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16568","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Abrupt and brutal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0098abrupt and brutal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 termination of Tesco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contract with Kerry Foods has put hundreds of jobs at risk at the Burton-on-Trent site, Unite warned today (October 24).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tesco ready-made meals contract, due to end in June next year, accounts for 75 per cent of the production at the Mosley Street plant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTesco has abruptly terminated the contract for Kerry Foods to supply ready-made meals for its supermarkets,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Rick Coyle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe contract has run for 19 years with no complaint about the service quality and delivery, which makes the Tesco decision all the more brutal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bKerry Foods\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 management is currently looking for new contracts to replace the business that will be lost,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOver the last three years, more than \u00c2\u014120m has been invested in the Burton-on-Trent plant, making it one the most modern food production sites in the UK. This should give confidence to the workforce that new orders will be obtained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI would like to pay tribute to the employees who have continued to work to a high and dedicated standard, despite the very real worries they and their families must be experiencing during this period of great uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will do all it can to work with management in the quest for new work at this premier site.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has about 460 members out of the 1,000-strong workforce at the Burton-on-Trent site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0098abrupt and brutal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 termination of Tesco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contract with Kerry Foods has put hundreds of jobs at risk at the Burton-on-Trent site, Unite warned today (October 24). &nbsp; The Tesco ready-made meals contract, due to end in June next year, accounts for 75 per cent of the production at the Mosley Street plant. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bTesco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[489,205],"wps_subtitle":"Termination of Tesco contract at Kerry Foods plant risks hundreds of jobs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25766,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions\/25766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}