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BFAWU manner
Features / 13 May 2024
13 May 2024
After surveying our members on issues from the NHS to Gaza, we are launching our Bakers’ Dozen manifesto in the House of Commons, laying out exactly what our demands are in the run-up to the election, writes SARAH WOOLLEY
INDISPENSABLE: Shop steward Richard Sainsbury (centre) confe
Features / 2 December 2023
2 December 2023
General secretary of the Bakers Union SARAH WOOLLEY discusses why the 1917 pamphlet, The Workers’ Committee, is still of value to the trade union movement in Britain today
organise now
Features / 23 September 2023
23 September 2023
General secretary of the bakers' union SARAH WOOLLEY looks at the marked success of the innovative workplace recruitment and organising tool for union activists after its first year
Union members take part in the TUC national demonstration in
Features / 25 October 2022
25 October 2022
A new wave of austerity is set to be accompanied by new attacks on our trade union rights, writes SARAH WOOLLEY, BFAWU general secretary and Campaign for Trade Union Freedom co-chair
BFAWU mental wellbeing
Features / 13 June 2022
13 June 2022
Bakery and food production workers have been candid about the impact that working through the lockdown and now into the brutal cost-of-living crisis has had on their mental health, reports SARAH WOOLLEY
Foodbank box
Features / 5 May 2022
5 May 2022
The notoriously exploitative food delivery app’s partnership with foodbank charity the Trussell Trust is far from a step in the right direction. Instead we need genuine, lasting measures to combat hunger, says bakers’ union leader SARAH WOOLLEY
BFAWU's general secretary Sarah Woolley
Features / 23 February 2022
23 February 2022
SARAH WOOLLEY, general secretary of the bakers' union, reports on the growing momentum behind the campaign to legislate against hunger as the cost of living crisis deepens
Food laid out in crates at a food bank in north London
Features / 24 April 2021
24 April 2021
A new report shows that food workers increasingly cannot afford to feed themselves — we need take the fight against in-work poverty seriously, writes SARAH WOOLLEY
packaging food
Features / 19 February 2021
19 February 2021
Bakers’ union leader SARAH WOOLLEY explains how the BFAWU is fighting to end the scourge of food poverty in communities and workplaces across the country
McStrike
TUC Organising 2020 / 9 July 2020
9 July 2020
Those who most need a union are still least likely to be in one, says BFAWU general secretary SARAH WOOLLEY
McStrike
Features / 1 October 2019
1 October 2019
SARAH WOOLLEY explains why she, as a 32-year-old single mum who came from the shop floor, would be the best choice to lead her union
Sarah Woolley
Features / 23 September 2018
23 September 2018
SARAH WOOLLEY says the opportunities for the working-class outside the EU are something to celebrate