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‘Broken and exploitative system’

Sep 28, 2021By UNITElive

Government plans to relax immigration rules for lorry drivers and poultry processors are ‘propping up a broken and exploitative system’, Unite warned earlier this week. The union said depriving other…Read more…

Sep 28, 2021UNITElive

Heroes and zeroes

Sep 11, 2020By UNITElive

Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you the latest heroes and zeroes of the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest: HEROES Unite’s manufacturing members This week,…Read more…

Sep 11, 2020UNITElive

‘Who wants to eat bleach?’

Aug 15, 2019By UNITElive

“Of course we want to make sure the same [American] standards are used,” Zippy Duvall, head of the American Farm Bureau told the BBC this week.   Duvall is the latest in a line of American…Read more…

Aug 15, 2019UNITElive

Poultry catchers to stay at home this Christmas

Feb 1, 2019By UNITElive

Specialist poultry catchers in Suffolk have notched up a significant victory after a plan to make them work on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day has been rescinded.

The post Poultry…Read more…

Feb 1, 2019UNITElive

‘Chicken run’ Christmas workers to strike?

Jan 22, 2019By UNITElive

We all know that turkeys don’t vote for Christmas – but now Unite ‘poultry workers’ will be voting to spend their Christmas at home with their families.   Feathers could…Read more…

Jan 22, 2019UNITElive

2 Sisters plant to close

Apr 13, 2018By UNITElive

Unite has slammed 2 Sisters Food Group for announcing it would shut down a poultry plant in Cambuslang, Scotland, in August, which would see the loss of 450 jobs.   2 Sisters confirmed the…Read more…

Apr 13, 2018UNITElive

‘Sense of betrayal’

Feb 9, 2018By UNITElive

Unite said it would leave no stone unturned in the fight to save jobs and avert the closure of three poultry plants after 2 Sisters Food Group announced plans to close its Cambuslang site in Scotland…Read more…

Feb 9, 2018UNITElive

NIESR report shows need to end race to the bottom on jobs

Apr 28, 2016By Touchstone blog

A report released this week by NIESR identifies low pay and precarious contracts as one of the key reason more local workers do not take up jobs in the hospitality, food processing and construction sectors leading employers in these sectors to draw on migrant workers from other EU countries, who…Read more…

Apr 28, 2016Touchstone blog

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