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Reacting to news of Wetherspoons U-turn and agreement to pay ‘furloughed’ staff before receiving funds from the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, Alex MacIntyre, BFAWU Branch 101 Secretary and Wetherspoon’s...

The social landscape in response to Coronavirus is fast changing.  Emergency legislation giving ministers new powers to respond to the Coronavirus outbreak is currently progressing through parliament with the...

Reacting to the news that 40,000 Wetherspoons workers, including BFAWU Members, were notified yesterday that their weekly pay will cease immediately and only resume when Wetherspoons is reimbursed by...

The Real Bread Campaign have joined forces with the BFAWU in order to offer guidance and information for business owners, their staff members, customers and other people in their...

We Deserve better, Companies like McDonald’s and Wetherspoons have made public statements which claim they will remain open during this crisis. We wish to ensure the protection of our...

The measures brought in by the housing minister Robert Jenrick on the 18th March banned any applications for new evictions in the next 3 months, but still compelled renters...

The social landscape in response to Coronavirus is fast changing.  Emergency legislation giving ministers new powers to respond to the Coronavirus outbreak is currently progressing through parliament with the...

R.E: INDUSTRIAL ACTION, ALLIED BAKERIES BELFAST, ORBY LINK UPDATE STRIKE ACTION CALLED OFF FOLLOWING AN ACCEPTED OFFER Members of the BFAWU and Unite the Union have accepted an improved...

R.E: INDUSTRIAL ACTION SUSPENSION AT ALLIED BAKERIES – ORBY LINK Pickets at Allied Bakeries Belfast have temporarily suspended strike action to facilitate a ballot on an improved offer by...

R.E: INDUSTRIAL ACTION, ALLIED BAKERIES BELFAST, ORBY LINK. Following pay talks with Allied Bakeries Belfast, members of the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union votedin support of all out...