Kettle Crisps manufacturers try to ban unions

[eoin_k]

An article has been posted on Indymedia:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/383345.html

 

[lights.out.london]

email sent.

 

[marty21]

apparently kettlefoods have now employed a PR form, to deal with the negative publicity, one of the tactics they may use is to get people to join the groups and disrupt

if they did do that, talk about overkill

someone has also recently joined one of the groups and called them self an "hilarious" version of my real name

 

[marty21]

surprise - workers voted no

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2190032,00.html

 

[eoin_k]

So what next - forget it as a bad business, carry on with boycott or contact workers with links to Unite and ask them what they want?

 

[baldrick]

I won't buy them again, as much as i like them. The whole saga has truly disgusted me.

i'm not on facebook, but if i was, i would join. it would be interesting to hear from workers liked to Unite.

 

[butchersapron]

You could extend the boycott to other brands owned by Lion Capital - weetabix for example? You can be sure they're going to try and remove nay workers who were active in the unionisation campaign so keeping some pressure on in some form may be useful.

 

[marty21]

So what next - forget it as a bad business, carry on with boycott or contact workers with links to Unite and ask them what they want?

union members and non union members at kettlefoods have both posted on the facebook groups, a lot of accusation and counter accusation tbh