THIS week the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) published a report that calls for the right to food for every citizen, every worker, every child across Britain.

In this report we wanted to give voice to our members. We wanted to hear from them their experiences and whether food workers were themselves feeling “food insecure” and suffering from food poverty.

The findings are shocking. Many of our members in the food industry — the forgotten key workers, the very people who kept us all fed during the pandemic — are struggling to feed themselves and their families. And the reason is simple: endemic low pay.