So happy Unite are taking such a proactive stance as Labour drifts rightwards. Sharon Graham has been such a good advocate for working people since she was voted leader…
She talks about holding bad businesses to account by doing effectively the same things governments do to investigative journalists and whistleblowers – building profiles on them, targeting their investments, calling out their transgressions.
It’s refreshing to see an organisation fighting back on behalf of people.
Man fuck that, below inflation is them stroking money from you – a company that made £1.1billion in profit the current year. They should all walk out on strike for the 2 weeks up to the 25th – that would get them to the re-negotiating table quick, pay up or all the turkeys rot.
Can’t let them get away with it. They infiltrated, brainwashed and crippled the left in order to be able to do this. It’s time to eat the rich! Bite down on the son of a bitch!
“Tesco forecast a full-year adjusted retail operating profit of 2.5-2.6 6 billion pounds, having previously forecast a similar outcome to 2019-20, when it made 2.3 billion pounds.” So they can afford to pay their staff more then. I wonder how many of them are on benefits to top up their wages from tesco? Another example of the tax payer subsidising big business. That sort of socialism is ok it seems.
Good on them. Our union at a local gov job sold out for 2.5%
Made out like it was the best they could get
>Unite always prioritises the jobs, pay and conditions of its members
Yet despite not being in the union, they had somehow signed my rights to 11hrs rest away.
Seems people quiting or standing up is happening around the world and I’m glad to see it.
I read in another article that Tesco said the pay rise was fair at 4%
How can they possibly sit there with a straight face and argue that? Is the board so disattachted from reality that they thought people wouldn’t notice they are effectively getting a pay cut?
Been working in the warehouse in Dagenham for a year now. Honestly we deserve so much more but receive so little. In case you’re wondering, let me enlighten you all:
In the warehouse you have something called performance which is 92 percent. You’re expected to achieve that by the end of your shift. If it isn’t met consistently, expect to be pulled in by management to discuss why you’re not achieving your ’92’. Furthermore different pallets have direct expected times.
You can pick a pallet of bananas which contain 32 heavy boxes and be expected to pick them in 15 minutes, which is entirely unreasonable considering the state of our equipment and how heavy bananas get (keep in mind what I said about performance). Or you could get lucky and score something light which can be picked quickly, thus if you put the effort in your performance for that pallet will by high. But effort isn’t reflected accurately.
The depot is poorly managed with truck batteries and printers consistently not being available, which has a knock on effect for pickers in the warehouse. And management aren’t really concerned about your mental or physical physical.
Be sick on your days off, not on Tesco’s time. I have been given warnings for suffering with my mental health, despite providing proof of my medication and sick notes. Overall, customers are having the wool pulled over their eyes if they think Tesco is a fair place to work at.
I’ve recently had an interview for a night shift position at Tesco. Basically filling up shelves for 8 hours.
Out of 8 hours of work during the night, only 5 were considered night time work and therefore paid £3.4 more per hour.
When the manager told me this at 1am in the morning, after having filled shelves for 1 hour as a test, I just wanted to walk away without even say bye.
I’m from Italy where I worked night shifts in a similar role, there night shift pay starts from 10pm until 6am and you get paid almost double the amount of day time working hours.
And then when you do interviews at Tesco, they make you have a chat with the Union guy who is there bragging how good are the working conditions of Tesco employees, yeah sure.
You couldn’t actually pay me enough to go back and work there, left in September. Absolutely took the piss over the pandemic last year when nobody else could work because they knew nobody would leave. I stopped accepting overtime in March of this year as my granddad was diagnosed with cancer so pretty much all my extra time went into caring for him or doing stuff for my mum whilst she cared for him. I was repeatedly insulted by a manager for “not pulling my weight” and how i’m disrespecting the rest of my team by not doing voluntary overtime. The day I went back after my bereavement period when my granddad passed I got my rota and this manager had slapped on all the overtime again, probably creamed her pants when I initially rang in to say my granddad has passed bc she could go back to sticking all these hours on me instead of wondering why staff turnover was so high and nobody wanted to work there in the first place.
> workers offered below inflation pay offer
How can they be so blind at the board level not to understand how insulting a real terms pay cut is?
Im a dotcom driver, our rise is from £9.98 to £10.23 ph
2.5% pay “Rise”
2022 is going to be a riot. The Government saying that the public pay sector 1% cap is over is going to lead to some amazing requests from the unions. Realistically 10% is needed as a minimum before it even comes close to bridging a gap.
A pay offer below inflation is a pay cut. Tesco are offering to cut their Workers’ Pay.
I worked for tesco nightshift when i was 18, minimum wage was £4.77, i was getting paid somewhere around £7.50 – £8 an hour for nights, which at the time i couldnt believe.
I quit my job in october and applied for seasonal nightshift at the same tesco, i am now 32. the application asked what i wanted my hourly rate to be. I thought well minimum wage now is £8.91 and its nightshift so its gonna be a good few quid so i put in £12 knowing this was probably gonna be too high.
During the phone interview i asked about pay and she said it was £8.91 and after 3 months it went up to something like £9.30. I stopped the interview at that point haha.
It’s difficult to have sympathy striking over a 4% pay increase. I don’t think many would get that right now and I myself only got 1.5%.
They need to realise “every little helps” does not apply to the wages of their workers. Pricks
Tesco is also set for Customer shortages. The more I hear about Tesco, the less i want to shop there.
Considering Tesco were withholding payment from farms for their produce to force them to go under I am entirely unshocked to learn they do not pay their staff fairly.
The best bit is, if they’d put out the 4% offer when negotiations STARTED, way back in May/June, it would almost certainly have been accepted unanimously.
Back then the RPI was only at just over 2% or something, so they’d have come across as a great, fair employer… Instead they arsed about with decimal point increases while inflation over doubled in a few months.
Frontline NHS worker who worked through the entire pandemic and had covid, twice, checking in.
My pay rise didn’t even cover the increase in council tax.
Or fuel.
Or gas and electric.
Or the 25-150% increase on everything in Tesco.
Solidarity!
If the union are so disconnected from the staff that you are not on a livable wage then organise a strike and tell the union to fuck off.
Companies are soon going to realise that they can’t keep exploiting low end workers, because there isn’t a near-infinite supply of replacements any more.
Everyone needs to unionize, this does not mean join the already corrupt fucked union if You’re fortunate enough to have one, this means collectively organising and forming your own. These corporations have fucked us all with low pay and miserable working conditions whilst everything around us has increased in price hugely, enough is enough
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So happy Unite are taking such a proactive stance as Labour drifts rightwards. Sharon Graham has been such a good advocate for working people since she was voted leader…
She talks about holding bad businesses to account by doing effectively the same things governments do to investigative journalists and whistleblowers – building profiles on them, targeting their investments, calling out their transgressions.
It’s refreshing to see an organisation fighting back on behalf of people.
Man fuck that, below inflation is them stroking money from you – a company that made £1.1billion in profit the current year. They should all walk out on strike for the 2 weeks up to the 25th – that would get them to the re-negotiating table quick, pay up or all the turkeys rot.
Can’t let them get away with it. They infiltrated, brainwashed and crippled the left in order to be able to do this. It’s time to eat the rich! Bite down on the son of a bitch!
“Tesco forecast a full-year adjusted retail operating profit of 2.5-2.6 6 billion pounds, having previously forecast a similar outcome to 2019-20, when it made 2.3 billion pounds.” So they can afford to pay their staff more then. I wonder how many of them are on benefits to top up their wages from tesco? Another example of the tax payer subsidising big business. That sort of socialism is ok it seems.
Good on them. Our union at a local gov job sold out for 2.5%
Made out like it was the best they could get
>Unite always prioritises the jobs, pay and conditions of its members
Yet despite not being in the union, they had somehow signed my rights to 11hrs rest away.
Seems people quiting or standing up is happening around the world and I’m glad to see it.
I read in another article that Tesco said the pay rise was fair at 4%
How can they possibly sit there with a straight face and argue that? Is the board so disattachted from reality that they thought people wouldn’t notice they are effectively getting a pay cut?
Been working in the warehouse in Dagenham for a year now. Honestly we deserve so much more but receive so little. In case you’re wondering, let me enlighten you all:
In the warehouse you have something called performance which is 92 percent. You’re expected to achieve that by the end of your shift. If it isn’t met consistently, expect to be pulled in by management to discuss why you’re not achieving your ’92’. Furthermore different pallets have direct expected times.
You can pick a pallet of bananas which contain 32 heavy boxes and be expected to pick them in 15 minutes, which is entirely unreasonable considering the state of our equipment and how heavy bananas get (keep in mind what I said about performance). Or you could get lucky and score something light which can be picked quickly, thus if you put the effort in your performance for that pallet will by high. But effort isn’t reflected accurately.
The depot is poorly managed with truck batteries and printers consistently not being available, which has a knock on effect for pickers in the warehouse. And management aren’t really concerned about your mental or physical physical.
Be sick on your days off, not on Tesco’s time. I have been given warnings for suffering with my mental health, despite providing proof of my medication and sick notes. Overall, customers are having the wool pulled over their eyes if they think Tesco is a fair place to work at.
I’ve recently had an interview for a night shift position at Tesco. Basically filling up shelves for 8 hours.
Out of 8 hours of work during the night, only 5 were considered night time work and therefore paid £3.4 more per hour.
When the manager told me this at 1am in the morning, after having filled shelves for 1 hour as a test, I just wanted to walk away without even say bye.
I’m from Italy where I worked night shifts in a similar role, there night shift pay starts from 10pm until 6am and you get paid almost double the amount of day time working hours.
And then when you do interviews at Tesco, they make you have a chat with the Union guy who is there bragging how good are the working conditions of Tesco employees, yeah sure.
You couldn’t actually pay me enough to go back and work there, left in September. Absolutely took the piss over the pandemic last year when nobody else could work because they knew nobody would leave. I stopped accepting overtime in March of this year as my granddad was diagnosed with cancer so pretty much all my extra time went into caring for him or doing stuff for my mum whilst she cared for him. I was repeatedly insulted by a manager for “not pulling my weight” and how i’m disrespecting the rest of my team by not doing voluntary overtime. The day I went back after my bereavement period when my granddad passed I got my rota and this manager had slapped on all the overtime again, probably creamed her pants when I initially rang in to say my granddad has passed bc she could go back to sticking all these hours on me instead of wondering why staff turnover was so high and nobody wanted to work there in the first place.
> workers offered below inflation pay offer
How can they be so blind at the board level not to understand how insulting a real terms pay cut is?
Im a dotcom driver, our rise is from £9.98 to £10.23 ph
2.5% pay “Rise”
2022 is going to be a riot. The Government saying that the public pay sector 1% cap is over is going to lead to some amazing requests from the unions. Realistically 10% is needed as a minimum before it even comes close to bridging a gap.
A pay offer below inflation is a pay cut. Tesco are offering to cut their Workers’ Pay.
I worked for tesco nightshift when i was 18, minimum wage was £4.77, i was getting paid somewhere around £7.50 – £8 an hour for nights, which at the time i couldnt believe.
I quit my job in october and applied for seasonal nightshift at the same tesco, i am now 32. the application asked what i wanted my hourly rate to be. I thought well minimum wage now is £8.91 and its nightshift so its gonna be a good few quid so i put in £12 knowing this was probably gonna be too high.
During the phone interview i asked about pay and she said it was £8.91 and after 3 months it went up to something like £9.30. I stopped the interview at that point haha.
It’s difficult to have sympathy striking over a 4% pay increase. I don’t think many would get that right now and I myself only got 1.5%.
They need to realise “every little helps” does not apply to the wages of their workers. Pricks
Tesco is also set for Customer shortages. The more I hear about Tesco, the less i want to shop there.
Considering Tesco were withholding payment from farms for their produce to force them to go under I am entirely unshocked to learn they do not pay their staff fairly.
The best bit is, if they’d put out the 4% offer when negotiations STARTED, way back in May/June, it would almost certainly have been accepted unanimously.
Back then the RPI was only at just over 2% or something, so they’d have come across as a great, fair employer… Instead they arsed about with decimal point increases while inflation over doubled in a few months.
Frontline NHS worker who worked through the entire pandemic and had covid, twice, checking in.
My pay rise didn’t even cover the increase in council tax.
Or fuel.
Or gas and electric.
Or the 25-150% increase on everything in Tesco.
Solidarity!
If the union are so disconnected from the staff that you are not on a livable wage then organise a strike and tell the union to fuck off.
Companies are soon going to realise that they can’t keep exploiting low end workers, because there isn’t a near-infinite supply of replacements any more.
That said, claiming something is “below inflation” because it’s below RPI is pretty disingenuous. RPI is a bad measure which is known to overstate inflation (https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/shortcomingsoftheretailpricesindexasameasureofinflation/2018-03-08). CPIH (probably the best indicator of inflation) is currently 3.8%, and CPI (no housing component) is 4.2%, so a 4% rise would be roughly in line with inflation.
Everyone needs to unionize, this does not mean join the already corrupt fucked union if You’re fortunate enough to have one, this means collectively organising and forming your own. These corporations have fucked us all with low pay and miserable working conditions whilst everything around us has increased in price hugely, enough is enough