Tag: Hovis
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Hovis talks end without success after management fails to deliver pay parity for Northern Ireland workforce
Picket lines to remain in force at Hovis’ Apollo Road site as bread shortages mount across retail outlets in Northern Ireland Unions invite Hovis management continue engagement through Labour Relations Agency with aim of resolving pay dispute Sean McKeever, Regional Officer for Unite confirmed that today’s talks with management which were aimed at ending the…
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Hovis management must deliver pay parity for Northern Ireland workers to avert risk of widening bread shortages
Joint Unite-BFAWU picket lines ‘rock solid’ 24-7 as workers stand determined to win equal pay with British colleagues Hovis bread products increasingly absent from shelves across Northern Ireland stores as production stoppage enters fourth day Sean McKeever, Regional Officer for Unite called on management at Hovis to see sense and avoid extending the bread shortages already…
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Bread shortages in Northern Ireland likely this weekend as Hovis workers confirm all-out strike action to proceed
Management offer of a 3 percent pay increase rejected by workforce reps as it does not deliver on Northern Ireland workforce pay parity with Hovis workers in Great Britain Post-Brexit difficulties in marketplace as a result of red tape barriers to importing bread from Great Britain likely to compounded by protracted halt to production at…
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Warnings of possibility of bread shortages in Northern Ireland as Unite members in Hovis vote overwhelmingly for strike action
Pickets set to be deployed at Hovis’ South Belfast site from 6am Friday May 14th with commencement of all-out strike action Bread production workers who are seeking a 10 percent pay increase, vote with a 90.5 percent majority for strike action Sean McKeever, Regional Officer called on management at leading UK bakery Hovis in Belfast…
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Call for public to back the striking Allied Bakeries workers as pickets set for Castlereagh Road site
All-out strike action to commence at Allied Bakeries from 6am tomorrow Workforce strike action seeks to lift basic pay significantly above minimum wage Susan Fitzgerald, Regional Coordinating Officer called for the public to support workers forced into taking an all-out strike for a fair pay set to commence from 6 am tomorrow. “Over the past…
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Hovis workers vote to end industrial action and accept inflation-busting four percent pay offer
Improved pay offer made by management two days before all-out strike action was set to commence after workforce voted 88 percent for industrial action Sean McKeever, Regional Officer, welcomed his members’ success in winning a significant uplift to their pay offer and said the result demonstrated the importance of union organising power and readiness to…