"Bakkavor caves into pay demands after staff 'anger'", 1 December 2021

...Bakkavor has faced a backlash after trying to plug staff shortages with a £250 bonus for recruits...

Its starter rate, for new workers after their first 16 weeks, provoked “anger” from other employees at five factories in Newark and Lincolnshire...

After threatening to ballot for a strike, the union negotiated wage increases of between one and eight per cent at four of the sites...

Staff were said to already have higher wages at the Spalding factory, where the starter rate was scrapped and all employees handed £100 instead...

The manufacturer has been approached for comment.