No warm words from Kraft - Unite will fight to the end to secure
future for Cadbury workers
1st February 2010
- Jack Dromey, Unite deputy general secretary to visit Cadbury
Bournville plant
- 10am, Monday, February 1st, 2010
Unite the union will fight to the end to secure a guarantee for the
future from Cadbury's new owners, the US food giant Kraft.
So Jack Dromey, Unite's deputy general secretary, will tell the
Cadbury workforce when he addresses them at the historic Bournville
plant this Monday (February 1st).
With only hours to go until shareholders vote on the revised £12
billion bid for Cadbury, Jack Dromey will tell the workforce that
the fight for their future begins now: "Warm words from Kraft are
not enough. We know this is a company that will break
promises, just as it did when it closed another historic chocolate
maker, Terry's of York.
"There is 200 years of manufacturing in the Midlands at stake
here with Cadbury so we must fight now to ensure that this great
history becomes a bright future.
"What we want to see from Kraft now are solid gold guarantees on
jobs and investment for this celebrated company and its great
workforce - and Unite is determined to get them."
Jack Dromey will visit the Bournville plant at 10am to meet with
workers ahead of their parliamentary lobby in the capital tomorrow
(Tuesday). At the lobby, Cadbury workers will be joined by
supporters from across the Midlands to push government for its
backing in their fight for a future. Hundreds are expected at
the Westminster event, which will be led by Jack Dromey and Unite's
national officer for food and drink, Jennie Formby. Local MP Jim
Cunningham will hold a briefing for MPs at which Cadbury workers
will urge MPs to do all they can to ensure the government acts to
pin Kraft down on jobs and investment.
ENDS
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