Asda-Wal-Mart

Asda: part of the Wal-Mart spy ring

Freedom — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:27:27 +0000

During the most recent major conflict between Asda and an outside body, a dispute between the company and the GMB led to bug detectors being deployed by unionists during negotiations to avoid surveillance by managers.

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.

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).

Worldwide report details brutal suppression of workers' rights

libcom — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:00:42 +0000

In addition, nearly 10,000 workers were sacked for their trade union involvement, and almost 1,700 detained states the ICFTU’s Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights violations, published today.

Asda Wal-Mart national strike ballot

libcom — Wed, 10 May 2006 11:00:00 +0000

GMB shop stewards at a meeting today in Manchester voted unanimously to commence the balloting process for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart to secure collective bargaining at the 20 distribution depots and to secure payment of the 2005 bonus and safe work rates.

12,000 say no to ASDA

libcom — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:08:28 +0000

The campaign has just gone on-line with a new website (still under construction).

libcom.org is pleased to republish this short history of the campaign:

Events up to September 2004

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.

Queen's Market under threat

Steven. — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:22:42 +0000

The 100 year old Queen's Market in London's Newham is a lifeline to local people. Over 150 stalls and shops provide work and affordable food to the area's many low-income residents.

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.

Wal-Mart boss faces jail for tax evasion

Steven. — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:33:41 +0000

Coughlin, a former close friend of the late Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, claimed to have been involved in a covert anti-union spying operation designed by the giant retailer, and to have taken the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of vouchers as payment, he had previously claimed they were given to employees as bonuses.

The items bought, many with company gift cards included:

58 year-old Asda worker sacked for buying rolls

Steven. — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:03:34 +0000

Ms Edwards has worked at the ASDA store for two years but had been off sick until recently while recovering from two operations. By having £3 cash in her pocket while working she was breaching ASDA cash handling rules.