Tesco's Employment Practices
Tesco, the world’s third-largest retailer, entered the USA in 2007 in one of its boldest international ventures, Fresh & Easy.
The UFCW looked forward expectantly to Tesco’s arrival, having learned of the company’s high standards of employment, underpinned by its own global policies on employment and human rights and evidenced by the ground-breaking partnership agreement between Tesco and the UK’s retail union, Usdaw.
In the three years that Tesco has been planning, and then rolling out its stores on the West Coast of the United States, the company has shown that its policies and principles do not travel well across the Atlantic. Instead of applying its British high standards in America, Tesco appears to have traded down to those of Wal-Mart, which is notorious for its anti-union approach.
Workers ask for no more than for Tesco to put into effect the policies, terms and conditions to which it is already publicly committed. We also believe that this is the right thing for Tesco.
Resources
Reports
Commissioned by UNI Global Union
Tesco's Employment Practices in South Korea
| Tesco's Employment Practices in Thailand
| Tesco's Employment Practices in the US (coming soon)
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Additional Documents
- UFCW Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights: Business Rights and Human Rights
- Correspondence between Tesco and UNI Global Union upon the publication of the UNI reports on Tesco's labor relations in the USA, South Korea and Thailand
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