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The 6th Annual Wigan Diggers Festival will take place between 11.00am and 9.30pm on September 10th 2016 at Gerrard Winstanley Gardens, The Wiend, Wigan. The day itself will feature...

At our recent Annual Conference in June this year, BFAWU delegates debated the current and future state of the Labour Party. The unanimous position of the Conference floor, was...

On Tuesday 23rd August, I received an email from the Labour Party informing me that I have been suspended from membership. I am now blocked from attending Labour Party...

The comments made by Owen Smith MP and claims he has made regarding a lack of campaigning on employment rights on the part of the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell...

The BFAWU is an affiliate of the Labour Party, which entitles our members who support the principles of the Labour Party a right to vote in the leadership election...

The current crisis within the Parliamentary Labour Party is deeply regrettable and unnecessary.  Last week’s vote to leave the European Union presents the entire labour movement with unprecedented challenges. ...

Members and representatives of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union condemn the actions of a number of Labour MPs, who have chosen to start a civil war within...

Like the majority of people up and the country, the Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers Union were shocked and saddened at the murder of Jo Cox, MP for Batley...

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...