to think Tesco should fucking well PAY THEIR STAFF?

[QueenOfFlippingEverything]

I know, I know, there have been threads about it already.

But this is so rage-inducing, I want THE WHOLE OF EVERYONE to know about it.

Jobcentre advert placed by Tesco for night shift staff. Who will be paid [drumroll] JSA (£67 a week) plus travel expenses.

Why the fucking fuck should Tesco get their staff for free? Why? Their profits last year were something like £3.5 billion last year!

I know who I think is taking the piss here, and its not the unemployed people who will be forced to work night shifts at Tesco for their £67 a week

That figure is people who want a job.
In December there were 1,886,500 people wanting a job.
There were 1,318,100 people on JSA.

That is, there's half a million MORE people wanting a job than claiming the dole.

They are the newly redundant and unemployed people living off parents or partners.

When there are not even enough jobs to put that half a million back in work, it's a waste of time to worry about a handful of lazy sods!

probably on here but too many pages to flick through : submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29356

and another one leaves the scheme...The Charity Scope this time:

Statement from Scope who have been involved with the Workfare scheme: "With immediate effect we have suspended our involvement with Workfare. We'll put our full response online shortly."

I'm loving the People Power I'm seeing at the moment. Keep it up everyone.

Tesco stores having protests across the counrty it seems...Leeds, Manchester as well as the store in London.

www.socialistrevolution.org/5347/tesco-workfare-protests/

sorry, here

Just as well the People are keeping it up, as the latest Beeb coverage hasn't exactly rocked. I count 3 paragraphs from protesters vs 10 paragraphs of "there there, you've misunderstood" from Tesco and Grayling - including repeating uncritically (twice) the claim that it was an IT error.

Unlike Newsnight on Thursday (on iPlayer from 15:20 mins), who had no difficulty finding dozens such adverts.

I've just found out..

Matalan
99p stores have also left the scheme in the wake of the public outcry.

here

I Support the stoping of this entirely, but i just trying to be a realist.

You didn't like my other post, but you shoot someone down in flames for putting a different perspective of something?

The last person who did that was HITLER BITCHES!

couldn't resist, i support the thing and i hope it does get stopped and i will try to get it stopped as much as i can. Now stop flaming me, please.

Q: What do the following have in common?

* Boots
* Sir Philip Green <span class="italic">[ie: Arcadia group, incl Top Shop, Top Man]</span>
* Tesco 'and supermarket brands'

A: They are listed on both of these sites:

1.Campaigner against the Government's Workfare scheme:
www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16

2.Campaigner against perceived/alleged avoidance of Corporate Tax:
www.ukuncut.org.uk/targets

Trebles all round, eh chaps?
They must be laughing their socks off..... But as ever, the joke's on the poor.

Would someone who tweets like to put up my link to House of Lords report, 5 April 2011, criticising DWP implementation of Mandatory Work Activity Scheme?

I think it might be useful, esp to @shivmalik1. (Sorry, Twitter-numpty here.)

Will do Nil

Many thanks - should have said, this was Grayling being called before the committee, that's why it's relevant.

Kate I live in the south east where historically there has always been work. I would have assumed that the long term unemployed are mostly situated where there isn't work. Many of these so called dole bludgers haven't worked since Maggie crippled the north, silenced the unions and closed the pits, manufacturing stopped, car plants closed and then Tony sold the steel industry.

No amount of forced labour will help. People can only work if there are jobs to go to.

He'll read it. He pissed off as well.

I have tweeted your link Nilgiri

Chris Grayling has just been interviewed on radio 4, might be able to get it through Iplayer.

He is saying that the scheme is voluntary and the select committee don't know what they are talking about

Voluntary - yes, the companies do NOT have to sign up to the scheme, those people who HAVE to go on these schemes or face loosing their benefit are not volounteers.

Scope have pulled out. Don't know if anyone else has already said this. Its on twitter

I've spread the word to friends on Twitter and FB, not written a blog post about it but once I've decided what to write I will for sure!

Lots of people are shocked at what this scheme is actually about and the boycott is spreading. These companies, with their millionaire bosses, should be and will be ashamed by the end of this farce. You can't replace jobs (that, let's face it are minimum wage anyway) with people working for nothing under the pretence of "work experience."

Tesco admitted on their FB last night that out of 2700 slave workers so far they have given jobs to only 300.

I heard that Radio 4 interview.
It was all butter-wouldn't-melt-in-our-mouth 'compulsory? withdrawal of benefits? ha ha ha ha what on earth gave you that idea?'

in which case why didn't they say so when the Cait Reilly story broke a few weeks ago when it still wasn't clear which way public opinion was going to swing on the matter?
and how come there are so many people blogging and tweeting about having done it under threat of losing their benefits?

voluntary my arse.

and the companies involved are just realising what a massive public relations fail this is for them and that they are facing real risks of a boycott. It doesn't take a huge percentage of your shoppers boycotting you to seriously affect your profits.

Thanks, and thanks, minimathsmouse.

Somebody on the boycott Tesco FB has just said that Tesco and Matalan have pulled out. App it was on Radio 2. Off to lisen on I player
Looking good

lisen ! or listen

i've just heard that some branches of Morrisons do use Workfare..any other information on this, anyone?