{"id":19464,"date":"2019-11-14T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19464"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:53","slug":"supermarkets-food-disruption-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19464","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Left with no choice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Bakkavor workers preparing popular meals for leading supermarkets have voted for strike action in a dispute over low pay at a time when the food manufacturer is raking in tens of millions in profit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers are now preparing to walk-out in protest over a paltry 1.5 per cent pay offer when Bakkavor Foods Ltd has posted \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u0141105 million in pre-tax profits and has a turnover of \u00c2\u01411.6 billion. 83 per cent of workers who took part in the ballot voted for strike action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A strike could leave shelves at Tesco, Sainsbury\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, M&amp;S and the Co-op empty of many popular meals including; salad meals, wraps, soups and dips such as taramasalata and hummus which are especially popular during the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The site in Spalding employs well over 1000 workers across 4 divisions: soups and sauces, dips, salads and distribution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers at the site are calling for a substantial increase which recognises the contribution they have made to the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s year on year increase in profits, while a typical worker earns around \u00c2\u01419.36 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading supermarkets face the prospect of considerable disruption to the supply of popular products like hummus and taramasalata over the festive season,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Mick Orpin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBosses at Bakkavor have absolutely no justification for suppressing workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay year on year when the company has increased its profits year on year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBetween 2014 and 2018 Bakkavor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s profits have increased by a massive \u00c2\u014140m but management have left hard-up workers with no choice except to take strike action to fight for their fair share.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is still time left to resolve this dispute and we hope management will get around the negotiating table with a view to reaching an agreement which recognises the workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 contribution to the success of the business.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bakkavor workers preparing popular meals for leading supermarkets have voted for strike action in a dispute over low pay at a time when the food manufacturer is raking in tens of millions in profit. &nbsp; Workers are now preparing to walk-out in protest over a paltry 1.5 per cent pay offer when Bakkavor Foods Ltd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1259,489],"wps_subtitle":"Supermarkets face disruption as food workers vote for strike action","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464"}],"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=19464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24862,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464\/revisions\/24862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}