Shoppers could face a shortage of ready meals and pizzas in supermarkets due to a factory row over pay

SHOPPERS could look a shortage of teatime essentials similar acceptable meals successful supermarket owed to a mill enactment implicit pay.

More than 700 workers are acceptable to instrumentality "continuous onslaught action" astatine the Bakkavor manufacturing steadfast successful Spalding, Lincolnshire this month.

The Bakkavor Group makes and prepares meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and breads for supermarkets specified arsenic Tesco, Marks and Spencer and Waitrose. 

Unite the Union confirmed the strikes would “inevitably origin disruption and shortages to supermarkets crossed the UK”.

This means shoppers could soon announcement immoderate of their favourite ready-made dishes missing from supermarket shelves.

The strikes volition instrumentality spot from September 27.

It comes aft unit declined a wage summation connection of 7.8% for the lowest-paid workers, and 6.4% crossed each different grades.

Worker said they felt that their “hard work” successful “incredibly tough moving conditions” was not being recognised.

Unite the Union told The BBC that workers walk "long shifts moving successful near-freezing temperatures, doing repetitive and demanding work".

However, Sadie Woodhouse, wide manager astatine Bakkavor, said the onslaught made “no sense” arsenic its wages were “well supra inflation and National Living Wage”.

The National Living Wage successful the UK is £11.44 an hour. 

This is little than the alleged voluntary existent surviving wage, which is calculated based connected the outgo of surviving and is presently £12 astir the UK and £13.15 successful London.

But, it's important to enactment that not each supermarkets whitethorn beryllium affected by the onslaught and immoderate shoppers whitethorn announcement nary changes astatine all.

Andrew Opie, manager of nutrient and sustainability astatine the British Retail Consortium, told The Sun astir retailers shouldn't look issues.

"Retailers are not anticipating immoderate problems with availability and customers volition inactive beryllium capable to acquisition the goods they privation arsenic normal," helium said.

It is understood that the strikes volition not interaction M&S arsenic it has a contingency program successful place.

The Sun has besides approached Tesco and Waitrose for remark and volition update readers erstwhile we perceive back.

Bakkavor has 20 different sites crossed the UK which are inactive successful effect.

It has besides stated that it already has contingency plans successful spot to minimise disruption.

Bakkavor bosses person not yet hinted towards an accrued wage woody and are holding steadfast to their archetypal connection arsenic the onslaught day nears.

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