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Durham Miners' Gala 2026 / 13 July 2026
This year’s Summer School is bringing the heat
13 July 2026

General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel

Photo: Henry Fowler
May Day 2026 / 30 April 2026
Why we’re supporting the Solidarity Fund this May Day
30 April 2026

A new Solidarity Fund promises a more accessible way to support strikers, says SARAH WOOLLEY

Salmon
STUC 2026 / 20 April 2026
Salmon workers’ safety fears ignored
20 April 2026

Dangerous conditions and political inaction still define the salmon industry, where BFAWU is pressing hard for change, says SARAH WOOLLEY

Features / 27 September 2025
Investment not austerity – the only way forward
27 September 2025

BFAWU general secretary SARAH WOOLLEY argues that the economy needs to be totally restructured to put a stop to never-ending cuts and spiralling poverty and inequality

Features / 13 May 2024
BFAWU: what our members want from the politicians
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
The Workers’ Committee: as relevant as ever
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
Features / 23 September 2023
It’s time for the whole labour movement to back Organise Now
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
NEW DEAL FOR WORKERS: Union members take part in the TUC nat
Features / 25 October 2022
Building the fight against Tory anti-trade union laws
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
Features / 13 June 2022
Why BFAWU members are prioritising mental wellbeing
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
Features / 5 May 2022
Deliveroo is part of the problem – not part of the solution
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
We have a right to food
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
We need a ‘right to food’
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