Call to end staff 'discrimination'

Jul 3 2009

Supermarket giant Tesco is due to face calls at its annual meeting for action to end the "exploitation and discrimination" of workers employed by companies in the UK and Ireland that supply meat to the firm.

Unite will table a resolution at the AGM in Glasgow as part of its long running campaign claiming that some workers in Tesco's UK supply chain were experiencing "harsh and divisive" conditions.

The union said it believed structural discrimination existed 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.