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Workers from supermarket food supplier Pilgrims Food Masters stage a protest outside Houses of Parliament, London, as they say 1,000 employees at the firm face a fire and rehire threat.
A FOOD company supplying Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose is threatening to fire and rehire 1,000 workers in west London, their union GMB revealed today.
Pilgrim’s Food Masters, which also supplies Aldi and Morrisons, has told the Southall-based staff that they will be sacked and re-employed on worse terms and conditions — including no paid breaks, reduced sick pay and the removal of Diwali holiday pay — the union said.
About 100 of the workers, who are mainly low-paid women of Punjabi, Sri Lankan and Somali heritage, went to Parliament today for a meeting with Labour shadow employment minister Justin Madders and other MPs.
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