Morrisons to cut hundreds of jobs after major announcement about bakery

Unions are slamming the supermarket elephantine for discarding 'workers connected the scrapheap' pursuing its acquisition by a backstage equity steadfast past year

Morrisons is facing a backlash arsenic it plans to adjacent its Rathbones bakery successful Wakefield, putting astir 400 jobs connected the line.

Unions are slamming the supermarket elephantine for discarding "workers connected the scrapheap" pursuing its acquisition by a backstage equity steadfast past year. The UK's fifth-largest grocer has initiated consultations astir shutting down the own-label bakery cognition aft a elaborate review.

This determination endangers the livelihoods of 378 employees astatine the facility. Acquired from medication successful 2005, Morrisons admits that contempt efforts, the bakery has been operating astatine a nonaccomplishment for years.

A spokesperson for Morrisons explained: "After a play of maturation and investment, the concern has been nonaccomplishment making for a fig of years. Although we person tried respective routes to instrumentality the concern to profitability, nary person been successful."

The institution expressed its committedness to supporting affected staff, including exploring imaginable reassignment wrong the group. The Bradford-based chain, present nether the ownership of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, assured that its 450 Market Street in-store bakeries would stay unaffected.

Insiders suggest that Morrisons whitethorn inactive nutrient definite meal items similar muffins and croissants astatine the site, perchance redeeming immoderate jobs. Morrisons has announced it is "considering each alternate options ... connected however we could alteration our existent concern exemplary and safeguard arsenic galore jobs arsenic possible".

Meanwhile, Sarah Woolley, wide caput of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, slammed the company's actions since its acquisition by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice successful 2021: "Since Morrisons were bought retired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice successful 2021 we person seen the accepted rhythm of backstage equity steadfast behaviour post-takeover that throws workers connected the scrapheap without adjacent a glimpse back.

"They person plus stripped Morrisons, with our members present bearing the brunt of their mismanagement with this short-sighted determination to adjacent the site. This attraction of radical is plain incorrect and unfair connected the hundreds of radical who enactment astatine the tract and who person had their lives turned upside down by this decision."