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Left Opposition emerges in shopworkers union

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USDAW bureaucracy shaken by election result

Solidarity with Bangladeshi Textile Workers Action

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26/04/2008 - 11:00am
26/04/2008 - 1:00pm

meet at Tesco, Bethnal Green (opposite Derbyshire Road), London.

Tesco to investigate riots at Bangladeshi factories

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Tesco has said it will investigate the circumstances of a series of violent demonstrations at factories in Bangladesh where workers have been protesting for higher wages and better working conditions.

Bangladeshi workers riot against sweatshop poverty

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Over 1000 workers producing clothes for Tesco H&M and Primark riot against beatings and poverty pay...

Misery at bottom of supermarket supply chain

Bulgarians said they were forced to "live like pigs"...

Sweatshop reality behind supermarket profits

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6p a T-shirt. 30p an hour for shelling cashews. Supermarkets accused of exploiting women
The Guardian April 23

Supermarket survey

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Traidcraft is working to change the way the food retail sector operates... help them by completing their survey...

Tesco, Briefing, January 2006

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Tesco – a briefing for activists

'Treat people how we like to be treated' – one of CEO Terry Leahy’s “Tesco values”

Tesco’s success
 Tesco PLC is the largest British retailer, both by global sales and by domestic market share – the fourth largest in the world. According to TNS Superpanel, Tesco's share of the UK grocery market in the 12 weeks to 4 December 2005 was 30.6%. Across all categories, over £1 in every £8 of UK retail sales is spent at Tesco.

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