Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union

Speaking at the TUC Annual Congress, Minister for Employment Relations, Lord Young confirmed that the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union was one of the unions been successful in securing further funding from the Union Modernisation Fund. Of the twenty three applications, the BFAWU was one of the accepted bids, following successfulk projects in both the first and second rounds.

The project, titled " Reaching out to vulnerable workers in retail bakery", seeks to explore the needs of an under-represented industry sector - retail bakery shop workers - that experiences vulnerability due to isolated sites, isolating shift patterns, and variable levels of employer compliance with employment law. The project would research, develop, and deliver a new model of employee engagement that would provide access to new channels of communication, capacity building training and empowerment to secure employment rights.#

For more detials of the UMF projects click here to go to the announcement on the Deprtment for Innovation and Skills website.

More details of the BFAWU project will follow in due course.