Cadbury workers safe despite senior walkout - union
Unite, which represents employees at Birmingham-based Cadbury, is confident there will be no immediate further job cuts after 120 senior staff left the company. Joe Clarke, regional industrial organiser for Unite, told Insider that its workers are “just getting on with day-to-day business” and are not affected by the recent redundancies.
He also said that the employees who have left Cadbury since the Kraft takeover were given “impressive and substantial” redundancy packages to leave the business.
According to the union, the 120 staff which have left Cadbury since Kraft’s takeover in February were in senior management positions. They were offered voluntary redundancy if their role was duplicated within the Kraft workforce.
But despite the redundancies, Clarke says the majority of the workforce are content with their working conditions.
He said: “Of course, many of the workforce were not happy with the Kraft takeover in the first place.
"But we said at the time that we wouldn’t expect to see any changes to working conditions this early on – it will be three, maybe five years time that we see big adjustments.”
Cadbury declined to comment on the issue.
Earlier this week it said 120 out of 165 senior staff from Cadbury, whose jobs were under consultation at Bournville and Uxbridge, have now left.
