TESCO TRUTHS

After our original article yesterday, we recieved a large response mainly from Managers and Assistants from the PI department.

It seems that Tesco Trading Law department has informed all stores that they have two weeks to ensure all the pricing updates are complete – put simply – for the next two weeks Tesco is happy to trade knowing that the prices on their labels may not match the price you are charged at their tills and as the changes are increases – you will be being charged a HIGHER price than advertised – this IS illegal.  We have in our possession a number of printouts of emails and from the “MyWorkplan” system confirming this.

In addition to this, the label changes will not be confirmed (AKA double scanned) which enables Tesco to track how many labels are outstanding / not completed . . . .this is because Tesco do not wish the label changes to show on the (legal, due dilligence) paperwork -  in fact there will be absolutely no indication of any problems of VAT price changes, because it is not going to be reported on any of the paperwork!   Stores themselves are having setup their own trackers to monitor their individual process, this is to allow Tesco head office to deny any knowledge of any problems encountered in stores.

SO……If you feel that knowing how much products are before you are charged or simply wish your supermarket to treat you with respect and trade transparently (and legally?) Tesco’s certainly is not the place to shop for the next few weeks!

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Tesco admits that VAT increases will depend on where you shop! http://bit.ly/4AnZkc / http://www.tescotruths.com

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#Tesco’s Ignore the traditional Bank Holiday on Boxing Day – workers FORCED to work! http://bit.ly/7ThQcv / http://www.tescotruths.com

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Tesco’s staff and managers have been well and truly let down by the “union” USDAW and simply abused by the Tesco Hierarchy and had their Boxing Day Bank Holiday ignored.

Many Managers, under siege from their staff have been approaching the Tesco ‘clones’ (AKA Store Managers and Personel Managers) asking why workers at Tesco are not entitled to a Bank Holiday Monday, as Boxing Day fell on a Sunday…………………It would seem that the response (in keeping with Tescos usual attitude to staff) is that Bank holidays are only for the Banking Sector, adding that it has been agreed with the USDAW union…………………….Well thats ok then!!!

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Apologies for any lost posts / comments, we have now moved servers and hosts to try to better prevent futher attacks!

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Well Tesco workers can forget going home early on Xmas eve,  Store Directors have been telling Store Managers via the Xmas Conference call today that all stores will be open until at least  7 – regardless of size or format ! !  Less than two days to go – and Tesco changes the playing field for the Line Managers and Staff – showing once again that Tesco employees really have no say in what or how they work AND that any arrangements will have to fit around the company.

For a company whom spends so much money on “living the Values” and paying lipservice to a “work-life balance”, it seems that all this can be ignored when the companies market share is in severe danger.  Most stores have not been able to recruit the “Xmas Temps” on which the store normally operate at this time – this increases the pressureon the staff and managers – with reports of Duty / Line Managers working 12 hour days (only paid for the 36.5 which is almost unheard of for a Manager to work!) with almost all managers being required to work all week without an actual day off.

Reports are also coming in of some stores (which are open Boxing and New Years Day) actively forcing managers to work – one report – verified by two managers, tells of how the Store Manager simply going round the room alternating between Boxing Day and New Years Day – giving the Managers no choice but to work one of them.

The pressures on the staff are apparent within the Tesco stores – Tesco seems to think that by having a “fun” calendar (events to dress up in etc) that staff & managers will ignore the “sweatshop style” environment and the directive management style from the Store Managers – the inevitable visit from the Stores Directors et al simply adding to the pressure . . . . . .   So if you do actually choose to shop in Tescos this year……. spare a thought for the workers and managers……..Maybe one day – the powers that be which sit in the Ivory Towers of Cheshunt will actually realise that the reason that Tescos are not seen as “warm and friendly” in comparison to the competitors is simply that they cannot be!  This is  relative to the actual number of staff on the shopfloor………………………..locking offices is not the answer – more managers is not the answer – more staff – properly trained is the answer…. but then – that would cost money – better to get some more consultants to simply tell us th be warm and friendly as we do the jobs of 2 or more people!

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Word has reached us of a number of Personel Managers working for Tesco are in talks with their Union and are already taking legal advice after being forced to apply for the new deputy manager role or simply work part-time.

Personel Managers may hold the key to blowing the sharp practices, present in most Tesco Stores wide open.  Among the most interesting are the changes in Managers reviews,  all of a sudden more and more managers are recieving Red or Amber reviews, this results in the managers concerned, not recieving the full pay increase.  Which matches perfectly Tescos usually underhanded methods – they can announce the pay increases, in the knowledge that unfair reviews will ensure that many managers will not recieve them.

Tesco’s own policy is to offer support as soon as anything other than a green review is recieved…..this should include day to day coaching, constant feedback and clear, tangible targets.  We know that this is not happening but would love to hear from Personel Managers with some more clear examples.

Additionally, only Senior Team managers with Green reviews are eligible for applying for the Deputy positions, effectively ensuring Tescos have already picked many of the Deputies, and condemming some senior team, who have recieved a amber or red (some whom have never got anything but a green before, and were shocked to get anything else!) in their last review, to a 10K pay decrease and forcing them to step down or move to the express format.

Yet still the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge this whole affair……  proof that money really does talk!!

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Unite union protestors waving flags and wearing brightly coloured “Every Worker Counts” t-shirts, will protest outside the Tesco AGM this Friday, 3rd July.

Date: Friday 3rd July

Time:9.00 – 10.30am

Venue: SECC, Exhibition Way, Finnieston, Glasgow, G3 8YW, next to main entrance (East doors)

In a first for a British trade union, Unite the union, will table a resolution (see notes to editors) at Tesco’s AGM. The resolution calls for action to end the exploitation and discrimination of workers employed by companies in the UK and Ireland that supply meat to Tesco.

Unite protestors will be out in full force brandishing flags and placards to ensure shareholders hear the voice of workers employed by companies that supply meat to Tesco stores. Unite members with shares in Tesco will also question Terry Leahy from the floor of the AGM.

Unite believes the issues highlighted by the resolution represent a systematic failure by Tesco either to anticipate or properly manage its exposure to brand, reputational and political risks.

The resolution is part of an ongoing campaign by Unite to improve the treatment of workers, including agency workers, in the UK supermarket supply chain.

The union has presented Tesco with evidence that some workers in its UK supply chain are experiencing harsh and divisive conditions that, in some cases, are abusive. So far Tesco has failed to act.

Unite believes that structural discrimination exists in many parts of the supply chain that provides meat to Tesco with agency workers, overwhelmingly migrant, on poorer conditions of employment, undercutting indigenous workers. That divides workplaces, Unite says, and damages community social cohesion.

The requisition of the resolution was endorsed by the West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) which holds 15,584,965 shares in Tesco. WYPF is one of the UK’s leading local authority pension funds and has over 211,000 members and beneficiaries, employed by 184 separate organisations, with assets of £7,271 million as at March 2008.

PIRC (Pensions Investments Research Council) has recommended to its clients that they support Unite’s resolution. The value of the assets advised by PIRC are circa £1.5 trillion. PIRC provides services to institutional investors on corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. PIRC has a wide spectrum of clients ranging from pension funds, faith-based investors, trade unions to banks and asset managers. Its Corporate Governance Service is an authoritative and vital resource for active investors.

The resolution is also supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, which represents 1.3 million members in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

As an indication of the seriousness of Unite’s claims, the powerful Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is conducting its first statutory inquiry into the UK’s multi-billion pound meat industry in England and Wales for evidence of employment abuse and discrimination.

Unite deputy general secretary, Jack Dromey, said: “Unite will be outside the Tesco AGM protesting, but we’ll also be inside the AGM calling for action. This is a first for a British union. Our resolution will be heard no matter what.

“The exploitation of migrant agency workers – and undercutting of indigenous workers – divides workplaces, damages community social cohesion and fuels racism. We have organised all workers around fair and equal treatment of all workers. Now we take their cause to the AGM of Tesco shareholders, holding Terry Leahy to account.

“Tesco, with Unite, jointly commissioned an independent report proving a two-tier labour market in their supply chain. The company then walked away from the table. We tried and failed to engage. The company is not interested. Now, the evidence of structural discrimination is so strong that the independent EHRC is conducting its first statutory inquiry.

“Tesco leads in size but lags behind competitor supermarkets which are accepting their responsibilities. The meat industry will forever be scarred by exploitation, undercutting and discrimination if the dominant player washes its hands of responsibility.”

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