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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at chicken giant 2 Sisters, which in September pulled a classic Scrooge – it refused workers a day off for the Queen’s […]
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Unite has slammed poultry processing company 2 Sisters for refusing to give staff time off or extra pay for the Queen’s funeral bank holiday on Monday (September 19). In an email to Unite, 2 Sisters stated, “Our operations will remain open as usual and no additional annual leave has been allocated.” Unite general secretary Sharon […]
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‘Inadequate’ sick pay and worker bus fare rises at the coronavirus-hit Bernard Matthews’ turkey processing factory in Suffolk increase the risk of further Covid-19 transmissions, Unite said today…Read more…
Unite has vowed to fight the announced closure of a 2 Sisters plant in Cambuslang, Scotland as the union now seeks legal advice to stop up to 450 job losses. In February, plans were first…Read more…
A chicken processing factory that was closed for a month following reports of poor hygiene practises reopened yesterday (November 6), after working with Unite to improve standards. Bosses at…Read more…
Just a day after Bernard Matthews announced on Thursday (April 6) that it would slash 69 chicken production jobs in Norfolk, the 2 Sisters Food Group said on Friday (April 7) that it plans to shutter…Read more…
Bosses at 2 Sisters Food Group in the West Midlands have been behaving like ‘tin pot dictators’ when it comes to workers’ rights, Unite said today (March 3). The union said that in the last…Read more…