Tag Archives: tesco
North Fort Street. 5.45pm. Police.
This evening about 5:45, on North Fort Street (about 200 meters from Ferry Road) I saw three police cars. Two on the corner by Fort House, one on the facing corner by Lapicide Place. And at least five police. They … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Education, Supermarkets
Good show, Tesco. Good show, what?
I say: those lovely people at Tesco have realised that it is wrong to employ people for nothing, who are showing up to work not because they’ll get paid but because if they don’t they’ll lose their benefits. (Turns out … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Poverty, Supermarkets
The ideology of workfare
On 9th February, Tesco in East Anglia posted a job on the DirectGov JobCentrePlus website, looking for someone on JSA to work the night shift. On 3rd March, there’s a National Day of Action against workfare. The basic details (should … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Poverty, Supermarkets
Resist the supermarkets
When supermarkets come to town, they wreck local businesses, set up a flow of money out of the community, increase traffic, and generally act like bullies who think they’re too big to fall. They make use of workfare labourers to … Continue reading
Filed under Supermarkets
Chris Grayling recommends slave labour
Chris Grayling, Conservative MP for Epsom and Ewell, is rather proud of the thousands of young people obliged to be shelf-stackers in Poundland and Tesco for no pay, in order to retain their JSA benefit: The Department for Work and … Continue reading
Filed under Poverty
