Tag: tesco
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Reply to ‘The British have no fight in them anymore’
Dear editor Nick Cohen (“The British have no fight in them any more” – 9/12/12) would have us believe that the resistance of working people is next to non-existent in the face of the ConDem austerity offensive. Nick hasn’t been the first with this pessimistic view. In November 2010, on the eve of George Osborne’s…
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On the first day of Christmas, Tesco gave to me …..THE SACK!”
On the first day of Christmas, Tesco gave to me …..THE SACK!” That was the message delivered by Doncaster Tesco drivers on Saturday to customers urging them not to shop at the biggest Tesco store in town. “On the dole for Christmas” is the “present” facing 180 Unite members, recently outsourced by Tesco to Eddie…
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120 – Can they have all the cake & eat it?!
Bulletin 120 – Can they really have all the cake & eat it? As we face another barrage of cuts from Osborne’s Autumn Statement – a ritualistic exercise in re-cutting the national cake! The Coalition makes out they’ve got goodies for all – to ease the pain they envisage lasting at least until 2018. The…
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N14 workers in Europe take action against austerity – TUC name the day for a general strike in Britain!
N14 workers in Europe take action against austerity – TUC name the day for a general strike in Britain! Many thanks for this report from Alex Gordon President of the RMT:On 14 November workers are taking coordinated, general strike action in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy for the first time as part of a European…
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Doncaster Drivers go to war with Tesco!
’ve never been on a picket line like it! An armoured personel carrier and a farmer’s muckspeader blocked the gates to Doncaster Tesco’s depot. Around 150 drivers, members of Unite the union, and their families joined the blockade for photographs as police stopped the traffic and scab deliveries! All were in high spirits as this ‘stunt’…
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116 – Selling off everything we own?
Over the course of the last few years the public sector has faced a sustained attack. Making public sector workers work longer and pay more for less pension. Imposing a real terms pay cut by freezing pay for two years followed by a 1% pay cap. Cutting hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs. Increasing…
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Tescos – Every sacking helps!
Unite members waved union placards on the picket line saying ‘Tesco – every sacking helps’ as 186 Tesco drivers in Doncaster started a three day strike on Wednesday 31st October against job losses and wage cuts. Tesco, not content with £3.8 billion profit last year, transferred their Doncaster transport workforce in August to Eddie Stobart…
