Tesco: Every worker counts - international support
International actions to support Unite's demands to
Tesco have continued in
March. Coordinated by the IUF, unions in countries
outside the UK where Tesco has stores have been monitoring their
local stores to see where Tesco gets its meat from. In
Thailand, Jasper Goss from the IUF's Asia/Pacific office visited
stores in Bangkok to check out the meat supply chain. "We are
looking at this and at working conditions in the meat suppliers, in
particular on health and safety compliance" he commented. Similar
monitoring has already been undertaken in Korea, Hungary and Turkey
and will soon be done in Japan and Malaysia. French
unions have also agreed to join the campaign.
Other unions have taken more direct action and
have demonstrated outside Tesco stores in solidarity with UK
workers. Demos have been held recently in Hong Kong where the
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Union and the Catering and Hotel
Industries Employees General Union submitted a protest
letter to the Tesco distribution centre in Hong
Kong. The biggest demo to date has been in Korea
where members of KWTU, KFSU: HQ, Pizza Hut Union,
Renaissance Labor Union, SaveZone Labor Union, Hilton Hotel Union,
HomeplusTesco Labor Union, Organizers of Korean Federation of
Construction Industry Trade Unions(KFCITU), Korean Public Service
Workers’ Union, Korean Transport Workers’ Union and organizers
from Korean Chemical & Textile Workers’ Federation
and Korean Solidarity against Precarious Work all braved
pouring rain to join the protest.
Click
here to download a report of the demonstration in Korea
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