Last modified on Sun 18 Jul 2021 03.01 EDT
For most of her 36 years at the Hufcor factory in Janesville, Wisconsin, Kathy Pawluk loved working there, at least until a private-equity firm took over four years ago. There were Christmas parties and summer picnics, and workers could listen to the radio as they built accordion-style room partitions for convention centers and hotel ballrooms.
âThey treated people like they were family, not a number,â said Pawluk, 62. âWe had the best health benefits. We had HR people who really cared about us.â
But Pawluk said things deteriorated soon after OpenGate Capital acquired Hufcor, a family-owned company founded in Janesville 120 years ago. âThey basically told us âWe donât want to get to know youâ in so many words,â Pawluk said.
By Harry Holmes2021-05-13T11:30:00+01:00
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A delay by English authorities in licensing depots was affecting exports and costing Omsco £10K a week, it said
The UK is in effect “banning itself” from selling raw milk to the EU due to a refusal to license certain storage premises for export, experts claim.
The EU requires all milk from third countries to be sent from approved food establishments. However, only processing sites have so far been licensed by English local authorities.
It means that raw milk stored in depots is currently unable to be shipped to the bloc.
By Harry Holmes2021-01-27T09:29:00+00:00
The government said gene editing would allow farmers to be less reliant on pesticides to protect their crops
The organic sector must make a radical departure from its outright opposition to genetic editing or else risk being “ridiculed and marginalised”, leading figures have warned.
The government launched a consultation on genetic editing (GE) earlier this month, arguing the technology would help farmers adapt to the challenges of sustainable food production.
The organic sector has been vehemently opposed to genetic technologies in the past, but Alex Smith, vocal anti-GM campaigner and chair of the FDF Organic Committee, said this week he believed the tide of opinion on GE had now changed and approval was “inevitable”. Organic opposition to the technology could therefore leave the sector marginalised in future policy decisions.