Greggs among major brands that could be missing from Brit shelves due to strikes

Consumers could face shortages of products because of strike action.

Trade union Unite announced four weeks of walkouts at Cepac, which works with the likes of Greggs, Mars and Carlsberg.

The firm also supplies major supermarkets, including Asda.

More than 90 members will down tools until September 11 in a row over wages and conditions.

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Union chiefs said workers rejected an 8% pay rise due to added conditions including longer hours, lower overtime rates and changes to shift patterns.

Unite’s Pat McCourt claimed the industrial action at the depot in Darlington, Co Durham, could hit the food and drink sector.

He said: “The food and drink industry operates on a just-in-time supply chain.

“So I’m sure that those customers will be extremely worried about the potential disruption.”

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham added: “Cepac’s offer has more strings attached than an orchestra. There is no way our members will accept worse conditions.”

Cepac managing director Steve Moss said the action “threatens the future” of the business.

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The news comes after workers at a Tetley Tea factory, in Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham, voted for strike action in a dispute over pay.

Meanwhile, the boss of Greggs left people shocked when she revealed the original plan for the vegan sausage roll – and how the company predicted they'd sell.

Food critic Grace Dent visited the Greggs factory and worked at the chain's first shop to learn the tricks of working in the popular bakery.

She appeared on a Channel 5 documentary, Inside Greggs: 24/7, and spoke to the company's CEO, Roisin Currie.

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The vegan version of the high street staple has become a fixture of the British high street, but Roisin admitted it wasn't the plan at all.

She said: "Now interestingly when we launched that product, our expectation was it would be a rotational product.

"Which means it would probably be in the shop for about 16 weeks and the sales wouldn't reach the level to be, you know, maintained as a regular product.

"We'd take it off sale and we'd bring it back at a future point in time."

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