UNDERPAID food workers should shame bosses who are forcing them into poverty, Bakers, Food & Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) general secretary Sarah Woolley stressed today.

In her closing address to the union’s annual conference in Staffordshire, its first woman leader issued a passionate rallying cry to delegates after BFAWU research showed nearly a fifth of its 15,000 members cannot afford the products they are producing. 

Speaking at Yarnfield Park conference centre in Stone, Ms Woolley said: “No food worker, nobody in our union, should be in a position where they can’t afford to eat, where they’re living in blankets and not buying food just to survive.”