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Tesco made profits of, £3.1 billion in the last tax year. http://www.tescoplc.com/plc/media/pr/pr2009/2009-04-21/ . But that is not enough for this company. They want to force the workers at Douglas Cork Tesco to accept reduced terms in new contracts. sounds different to what they say on there website. http://www.tescoplc.com/plc/corporate_responsibility/go...jobs/ . Support the Tesco workers in there struggle to enjoy a sustainable standard of living. If we stand idly by then it will be us who are next to feel the cutting blade of corporate greed.
good to see the young ones fighting for their rights
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May 1, 1909. Police kill thirty workers in a South American city. The workers are gunned down and violently beaten during a protest to demand an eight hour work day and remember the Hay Market Martyrs. Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, was the scene of this massacre targeting the anarchist-labor movement which proliferated throughout the region through the beginning of the 20th century.
Rest of the story at the link.
A Dead Anarchist
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Argentina: Workers Rally to Keep Occupied Factory (2:32)
I am old enough to remember when things were bad before in the country (when Haughey was having his silk shirts flown in from Paris, what party was he leader of, of yes the Fianna Failers) and Tesco closed up shop and left the country. Sort of circle the wagons at home in the UK.
They came back but have no fear they will pull out again at the drop of a hat, look at Dell !
I don't shop at Tesco because of what they did in the past and show how they can easily do it again. Stand up to them, walk away, there is no room for imported dictators in Ireland we have enough of our own smug bas***** in Government who have shown that they are worse than Tesco.
Its very simple ...Buy Irish and boycott Tesco. If the people of Ireland would observe those two simple ideas Ireland and indeed the Irish consumer would be much better off.
If you put the largest North American supermarket chain's workforce together with Europe's largest and then the world's second largest (Tesco) you have more workers on or near minimum wage than are employed by the two largest labour / labor options on this planet : to wit the US military industrial machine and the North Korean army.
It's not so easy for people in Ireland "to buy Irish" as the last commentator suggested perhaps being more influenced by that recurrent American slogan in times of recession "buy US", for the simple reason that we are not self-sufficient in either food or domestic cleaning products nor even clothes pegs, tampons, razor blades, condoms, nappies (diepers), kiwifruit, lager, tobacco, coffee, tea, beans with or without tomato sauce, textured soya protein for the vegans, rabbits with no eyes thanks to terminal myxomatosis suitable for ex-vegans nor the now near banished plastic carrier bag.
Indeed our stockpiles of the most ubiqitous four wheeled vehicle on Earth, the supermarket trolly would probably go wonky within a year & we would have to import the fecking yokes from wherever it is they're conceived, tested for safety and fitted with their annoying little coin mechanism.
But the BUY LOCAL & SAVE OUR JOBS! slogan which is so easy to shout at Tesco, is also being shouted at Tesco in Hungary by the far right
I know coz I just read it on a BBC News feature & you can too by clicking on this link -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/markurban/2009/06/....html
& so I think the approach evinced by Paul Conroy many times on these pages which brings focus on the influence Tesco (& the others at work in Europe & North America naturally as they all employ the same tactics) on education and the inculcation of values and reification of capitalism in our children and other students is the way to go along with of course examination of their worker issues and pay rates. Though in fairness the largest three never have been found or alledged to have stooped to the depths of LIDL described as using STASI techniques on their staff (c/f http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86890?condense_comments...=true ) but we do know the top three Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour flaunt planning regulations and sit at the table of urbanism, they probably deserve their own line of code in any future SIM city style computer games. If they don't have one already.
A boycott of Tesco would be a very bad idea. Tesco employs 12,000 workers in Ireland members of the trade unions Mandate and SIPTU, do you want to see these people lose their jobs and end up unemployed!
In the real world most of us shop in multinational supermarkets and that is not going to change in the near future. The best way to deal with this issue is for strong trade union action to force these companies to pay decent wages.