A group of Cadbury workers made their feeling known about the takeover of Cadbury today by staging a protest on Bournville Village Green.
The Unite union helped organise the event aimed at raising awareness of the implications for factory workers once the takeover goes ahead. The small but vocal group waved placards which said “Don’t sell us out” and handed out leaflets.
Professor Carl Chinn joined the protest and made an impromptu speech, claiming that “Kraft have got to understand that they have to talk to unions to give assurances”. However, one worker claimed that she didn’t have faith in the Unite union: “they’ve tried to do things in the past before but they’ve never succeeded.”
Speaking for Unite, regional officer Joe Clarke, a former Rover worker, drew parallels with what happened at Longbridge and said that the Cadbury factory is the lifeblood of the Bournville area.
Workers from Cadbury UK sites will be attending a parliamentary lobby in Westminster on Tuesday, 2nd February, 2010, the day the takover bid is likely to be confirmed.
it might be too late now, and I have no connection with Cadbury;s other than being British and knowing it is an amazing iconic brand, proud to be british and makes fantastic products that british people love, but where is the public anger about what is going on here? another british brand about to be consumed into a faceless US multi-national, for what? Pure greed that’s what! where are the MP’s where the factories are located? how spineless are they? And what will become of the products that we all associate ourselves with? Its about time that the british people stood up for themselves, and I am prepared to do that. This whole business makes me feel angry, so lets get angry together!!
The countries gone to the dog’s, imagine this happening in France?
Governments past and present have slowly destroyed this countries manufacturing base over the last 25 years or so and what have we got to show for it, trillions of debt that’s what.
Best of British used to mean something, but not anymore or ever likely again.