ONCE again Nestl are in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. It seems there is a culture of treating the workers like cattle.

Or, as the majority of staff say, they treat us like mushrooms because we are kept in the dark and fed on rubbish.

Workers are facing extremely anxious and desperate times and there is no employee support network in place at the York site, one more job that Mr Nestl has seen fit to abolish.

Up until a few years ago there was such a person as an employee support manager. Chris Horbury was the last one and it would be interesting to hear his opinion on this matter.

Nestl has no flexibility in its shift structure and no family-friendly policies to speak of. The new breed of "degree-holding managers" appear to have very little grip on reality when it comes to people management skills.

They operate solely on a basis of furthering their own careers and feathering their own nests by reducing cost in each area they are assigned to for two years at a time. And they rip each department apart at the expense of the shop floor workers.

The morale on site in York is at basement level and it's going to take a brave, determined, dedicated and committed people person of the human kind to bring it back up a few floors.

Come on Mr Nestl, we challenge you to put Nestl Rowntree back in the Evening Press for the right reasons.

Nestl Rowntree worker,

Name and address supplied.

Updated: 09:46 Wednesday, March 15, 2006