food

Hog farms, toxic water, and more toxic prisons in Texas and beyond

Keith "Malik" Washington writes on the environmental impact of prison-run hog farms.

Bakkavor Factory Newsletter - Issue 3

Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Feb 27 2018 19:14

Bakkavor runs four factories and one warehouse in our area, employing around 3,500 permanent and agency workers. This issue deals with the union election, sex pests and dodgy temp agencies.

Bakkavor Factory Newsletter - Issue 2

Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Dec 18 2017 08:03

Factory newsletter for Bakkavor workers. Bakkavor produces ready-meals for all major UK supermarkets. The company runs four factories and one warehouse in west London, employing in total around 3,000 workers.
PDF-version on: www.workerswildwest.wordpress.com

Do solidarity unions need to ‘go public’?

Marianne Garneau and MK Lees reexamine the value of the "Going Public" step in solidarity union organizing drives.

Bakkavor Factory Newsletter Issue #1

Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Oct 24 2017 13:06

Bakkavor runs four factories and one warehouse in our area, employing around 3,500 permanent and agency workers. We have been in and around the factories for a while, this is our first newsletter specifically dedicated to Bakkavor workers, in Gujarati and Tamil translation. Main issue is the recent pay deal.

Until Victory: film about struggles in Italy's meat industry

Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Oct 12 2017 08:34

New film about the struggle of workers organized in SI Cobas in the meat industry in Modena, Italy, in the winter of 2016/17. The material was filmed almost exclusively by workers and supporters themselves with their smartphones. It gives an impression of the physical violence and brutality perpetrated against superexploited workers.

‘It’s only the beginning’: UK McDonald’s staff take historic strike action

Submitted by RosalindR on Sep 3 2017 21:15

Workers at McDonald’s stores in Cambridge (East England) and Crayford (Southern England) are mounting historic strikes on Monday morning. Organised by the BFAWU (Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union), they will be the first ever unionised strikes at a UK McDonald’s.