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GMB Members At Pratts Bananas Secure Official Trade Union Recognition And Bargaining Rights

The mainly Polish workforce at Luton based fruit importer Pratts Bananas secured trade union recognition and bargaining rights. This has come about as a result of a check conducted by Arbitration & Conciliation Service (ACAS) which established that the majority of the workforce in the bargaining unit at S H Pratt & Co (Bananas) Limited are members of GMB trade union.
23 Apr 2008

The mainly Polish workforce at Luton based fruit importer Pratts Bananas secured trade union recognition and bargaining rights. This has come about as a result of a check conducted by Arbitration & Conciliation Service (ACAS) which established that the majority of the workforce in the bargaining unit at S H Pratt & Co (Bananas) Limited are members of GMB trade union.

Alan Costello, GMB Organiser said, “It is impossible to underestimate the importance of today’s result to the mainly migrant workforce at Pratts Bananas. The workforce and GMB have worked towards this day for over two years and the reward for all that hard work is union recognition.

GMB members will work with the company to help make it the best employer in Luton and the most successful fruit importer that any supermarket can be proud to work with.”

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Contact: Alan Costello, GMB Organiser on 07974 250946 or GMB Press Office: Rose Conroy on 07974 251823 or Steve Pryle on 07921 289880.

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