Cooking on the Breadline

Cooking on the Breadline

Low pay and poor conditions in the British food industry leave thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — but some are pushing back and organising for better. Unite members on the picket line at Bakkavor, Spalding. (Credit: Unite the Union) ‘I suppose it’s better the devil you know,’ says Michael,* a food production worker from Spalding, Lincolnshire. He has worked for the food manufacturing company Bakkavor, which provides fr…