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It turns out that the great Thatcher-Reagan promise about privatisation, free trade and the unrestrained market of a great share-owning democracy has been a costly experiment that has failed...

Following on from BFAWU concerns prior to the introduction of the ‘living wage’, and how certain employers would seek to dodge their moral responsibilities, Channel 4 News recently broadcast...

Please see below statement from the Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) in relation to the Fast-Food Rights Campaign and the Labour NEC’s decision to refuse McDonald’s a...

The BFAWU has campaigned for the minimum wage to be raised to £10 an hour for the last few years and the campaign has really started to gain momentum...

BFAWU Greggs Representative, Executive Council Member and newly elected Full-Time Official for Region 5, Sarah Woolley reports from the Union’s first ever Women’s Forum, which took place at Whelley...

Addressing a fringe meeting organised by the BFAWU’s Scarborough branch at the recent Young Labour Conference, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn called on people to join and support the...

The BFAWU has laid bare the inadequacies of the ‘living wage’ ever since George Osborne announced that his government were going to introduce it. During the lead up to...

The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union opposes the expulsion of socialists from the Labour Party; including the eight comrades expelled because of their association with the socialist organisation,...

‘Stand Up To Racism’ (Greater Manchester) have issued the following press statement: GOVERNMENT MUST OPEN UK BORDERS TO REFUGEES LIVING IN THE CALAIS “JUNGLE” People from Manchester will join...

On 25/11/15, Hovis made a company announcement, stating that they are to cease making bread at their Wigan site, with the proposed closure of the thirty sack bread plant....