Fast food chains, through no fault of their own, may have to race to find alternative supplies in the event of a damaging strike by workers at Best Food Logistics.
The prospect of disruption to supplies for chains builds on a year of intensifying union action across the economy that has seen railway workers, Royal Mail and Post Office staff-to-Felixstowe dock workers walk out in a fight for better pay.The outgoing leader of the trade union body the TUC has warned key health care workers could be next on the picket lines this winter.
"If ministers and employers keep hammering pay packets at the same rate, UK workers are on course to suffer two decades of lost living standards", she said.
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