supermarkets

France: workers strike, many win

jef costello — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:02:26 +0000

Michelin - Workers at the factory in Toul (Meurthe et Moselle) began strike action after plans were announced to close it down. As well as occupying and blockading the plant with pickets of burning tyres the 826 workers also confined two managers to their offices during the four-day strike.

France: Carrefour strikers issued with summonses

jef costello — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:35:43 +0000

Workers at the hypermarket have been on strike since February the first.

France: Carrefour strike in Marseille enters 11th day

jef costello — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:44:44 +0000

The Grand Littoral branch of Carrefour is the only one in the country to have continued action after the national one-day retail strike. As a result Grand Littoral has been entirely closed for nine of the last eleven days.

France: unprecedented national strike hits retail sector

jef costello — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:13:14 +0000

The strike was organised by the CGT CFDT and FO unions to pressurise management over pay and conditions, specifically part-time working and holiday working in a sector employing over 636,000 people.

Belgium: Supermarket workers launch wildcats

jef costello — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:53:02 +0000

The strike began at the Cointe branch of GB (owned by the Carrefour chain) after a union representative was sacked after an accusation that he had altered his timecard. The strike spread to the Flémalle branch the following day and workers walked out at Ans on Saturday. Workers are also currently demanding that the company respect agreed practises over working hours.

Grampian foods workers on strike tomorrow

catch — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:39:22 +0000

The strike will be about half the number of workers who originally voted to strike and a week late, as reported by libcom two weeks ago, this is due to the T&G entering negotiations at several sites across the UK.

Grampian foods workers to strike

catch — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:54:40 +0000

Around 2,000 workers will be involved in the strike at plants across the UK including Perthshire, Edinburgh, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex, Somerset and Wales. 24-hour strikes were also held at sites in Sandycroft, Flintshire (site of the recent airbus wildcats), and Llangefni in October over the same issue.

Iceland workers to strike over Christmas

catch — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:30:15 +0000

The workers are formally emplyed by DHL, but any pay increases have to be first authorised by Iceland according to the T&G union. The depot, which employs 250 warehouse operatives and 115 drivers supplies food to 180 Iceland stores in London, the South East and East Anglia. The T&G expects the strike to affect stocks in Iceland stores during the run up to Christmas.

Walmart workers walk out on wildcat

catch — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:09:12 +0000

Around 200 workers, or close to the entire shift, walked out of the store in Hialeah Gardens at 9am Monday.

NZ: Trolley jam in support of locked out supermarket workers

libcom — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:11:47 +0000

Customers filled shopping trolleys with goods then used them to block the aisles of the Foodtown Tauranga supermarket. Each trolley included a message of support for the locked out workers.

2003-2004: Los Angeles supermarket strike

Steven. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:44:14 +0000

The walkout was against cuts in benefits, and run almost entirely by union leaderships. While the supermarkets lost $2.5bn in profits, they succeeded in beating the strike and imposing the cuts.

Notes on Another Defeat for Workers in the US

Every little hurts - supermarket power in Britain

Freedom — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:00:00 +0000

Sittingbourne in Kent is not famous for much. It does though claim to have the longest High Street in Britain. If you had walked along it forty years ago you would have passed four fish mongers, seven butchers including a specialist pork one, no less than nine green grocers, four bakers and not a single supermarket (the first one arrived in the mid 1970s).

Spain: Mercadona supermarket strike

libcom — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:07:22 +0000

The strike is organised by the CNT anarcho-syndicalist trade union.

Mercadona, whose slogan translates as "supermarkets of trust", is Spain's biggest national supermarket chain by sales, with 990 outlets across the country and 54,000 workers. The company likes to pride itself on its claim that 100% of its staff have permanent contracts.

Spain: Supermarket strike in Barcelona to enter second month

libcom — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:22:14 +0000

The dispute began with the sacking of three members of the anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT working at the centre, the culmination of a campaign of threats by the company against workers unionising at the centre. Even before a strike was declared the company brought in scab workers, attempting to preempt the actions of their own employees.

Asda distribution depots set to strike

Steven. — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:14:09 +0000

The GMB union is balloting thousands of members in the company's 19 distribution depots which supply the entire supermarket depot, after talks over a dispute at the Dartford depot broke down late last week.

Asda fined for anti-union bribe attempt

libcom — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:33:41 +0000

The supermarket giant Asda has been ordered to pay £850,000 in compensation to employees for unlawfully offering them a financial inducement to give up their union rights in a damning judgment by an employment tribunal yesterday.