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A London food manufacturer has been ordered by a provincial labour body to allow its workers to speak with a union.

But The Original Cakerie on Innovation Drive has not done so and now faces looming legal action, said Debora De Angelis, Ontario director of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

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“We are doing everything in our power to ensure we can enforce the labour board ruling. It is the governing body in Ontario that enforces labour legislation,” De Angelis said Thursday.

The union has signed 20 per cent of the 400 workers at the cake maker to union cards, meaning under labour law it can demand a list of the employees and their contact information from the employer.

The UFCW won an Ontario Labour Relations Board ruling in March granting it the list. The company has not provided it.

“We are asking for an opportunity to have a conversation with workers and share how a union can improve working conditions — that is all we are are asking for,” said De Angelis.