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BOSSES at Britain’s largest food company have blamed Brexit for hundreds of jobs being threatened at a Midlands pizza factory.
The Nottingham factory plans to lay off 280 staff from the end of the month — and the remaining workforce fear their terms and conditions will be “salami-sliced.” The site is owned by 2 Sisters, the group that makes Goodfella’s Pizzas.
With workers set to observe an overtime ban next week, their union Unite is holding crunch talks with bosses in a bid to win double redundancy pay and protect conditions for the 500 staff who will hold onto their jobs.
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years