Food Manufacture - Heinz outsources sauces
WORKERS, JULY 2006 ISSUE
Over 125 jobs at the Heinz sauce factory in Birmingham are set to be axed as production is shifted to Heinz's Holland factories. The Birmingham factory has been in production for over 100 years. Heinz's latest advertising campaign boasts "every Heinz tomato knows where it comes from". Trade unionists campaigning to save the factory are demanding that every customer knows where every Heinz sauce bottle comes from and if it is not made and bottled in the UK – boycott it.