Bosses at Pork Farm Bowyers are bringing in Portuguese workers to boost their production workforce, at the same time as announcing redundancies in the engineering department.

Unskilled workers are completely different to skilled engineers but the company's foreign policy is having a devastating effect on factory morale.

The redundancies came out of the blue with many workers now fearing for their future at the factory. Ironic, considering in the production department workers are so rare that bosses are turning to foreign labour. The question is whether this is an efficiency drive or a cost-cutting exercise.