Salt supply threat
23 April 2026
Salt is vital, but British production is under threat. There are huge reserves, but one of the two production sites is closing and the other is foreign owned.
Food manufacture
Food manufacture
No to fire and rehire
21 October 2024
Food manufacturer Oscar Mayer wants to fire and rehire workers at its Wrexham factory to reduce wages. The workers began a 4-week strike in September, extended when the firm refused to negotiate.
Strike to hit Europe’s largest Coca Cola bottler
6 June 2023
Unite members at the Coca Cola Europacific Partners plant in Wakefield, Europe’s largest, will strike for fourteen days this month after 87 per cent of those voting in a ballot rejected the employer’s offer of a 6 per cent rise.
Food fraud rip off revealed
25 April 2023
Farmers Weekly has revealed that British farmers were being ripped off by a large-scale fraud, with huge quantities of foreign pork passed off as British.
Dairy Products: Drivers strike
Around 70 HGV drivers and shunters at Muller’s Stonehouse factory in Gloucestershire are to escalate their dispute...
Grow for independence, plan for the people
It’s one of the central tasks of any government: to be able to ensure that the population can be fed. That can’t be left to market forces, just-in-time logistics, or the whims of foreign governments…
Chocolate’s coming home
9 February 2021
International food giant Mondelez is shifting the bulk of its Cadbury’s Dairy Milk production back to Britain. This reverses much of the outsourcing that took place in 2017.
Time to take control of our food
Those who advocate a free trade deal with the US claiming that it will lower food prices are putting the cart before the horse. We don’t need free trade – we need a strategy for food production, and its distribution…
Food sector targets new international customers
12 September 2017
Post-Brexit, food and drink firms are targeting international customers, with expected growth in sales and employment according to a recent report.
Biscuit workers strike over bullying and job losses
25 November 2014
Eight hundred members of the GMB union are preparing for more strike action in the run up to Christmas at the Jacobs Biscuits factory in Aintree, Liverpool.