This week, on the first anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members’ contributions, concerns and…Read more…
The dark underbelly of the food industry
Recently, a number of celebrity chefs and restauranteurs, including Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, signed a letter calling on Boris Johnson to bar substandard food entering the UK…Read more…
Bernard Matthews bus win
Bernard Matthews has suspended fares on company-subsidised buses to all of its sites to help prevent the spread of coronavirus through car sharing, following pressure from Unite.
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‘Afraid to take sick leave’
Unite warns Norfolk’s Banham Poultry refusal to provide company sick pay increases risk of another outbreak
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‘Safety first and foremost’
Workers who need to self-isolate at a Banham Poultry factory in Attleborough, Norfolk, where 75 staff have tested positive for coronavirus, must receive ‘adequate sick pay’, Unite, the UK and…Read more…
‘Safety first and foremost’
Workers who need to self-isolate at a Banham Poultry factory in Attleborough, Norfolk, where 75 staff have tested positive for coronavirus, must receive ‘adequate sick pay’, Unite, the UK and…Read more…
‘They are putting people at risk’
When meat processing worker ‘Alex’ tested positive for coronavirus, he was forced to stay off work for a number of weeks, along with the colleagues he shares a house with.
The housemates were given…Read more…
Exploitation of migrant workers and coronavirus link must end
The link between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts ‘must be addressed’, Unite said last…Read more…
Test meat processing workers now call
Workers in meat processing are being put at risk by employers who are failing to do all they can to protect their employees. Earlier this week, UniteLive highlighted Unite’s deep concerns over a…Read more…
‘Alarmingly high’
At least two abattoir workers are seriously injured in the UK every week and amputations occur at least once a month, shock new figures show. The data – obtained by the Bureau of Investigative…Read more…