Tesco Slave Labour Conspiracy!

Support for Tesco is support for slave labour!
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/02/16/how-companies-like-tesco-are-paying-workers-virtually-nothing/

It appears that the ConDemAll government is conspiring with Tesco to provide unpaid jobs to force a number of the jobless folk into work. In this case the fact that the work is unpaid means that this is an example of forced labour (slavery)!

A reminder about Slavery:

STATUTE BREACH for Slavery in the UK

Contrary to Ss 2 and 10 of The Slave Trade Act 1824

"...in every such case the person or persons so offending, and their procurers, counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years."


Shame on Tesco for being involved in this criminal use of public funds, and serious Misuse of Public Office by the corporate owned UK plc government!

Excess packaging?

Concerned about excess packaging in supermarkets? Tired of having to sort it out and put it in your bin? Would like to let that supermarket know about their excess packaging and sort the problem out?
Here is an excellent solution:
Send all excess packaging back to the supermarkets, using their customer services FREEPOST address with a note enclosed that reads "Thank you, I don't want this. Please cut back on your packaging".
In that way you can be influencing their policies and helping them to be responsible for their waste, and for their failure to use biodegradable packaging despite many ethical companies doing so already!
Please do network the addresses widely, especially to anyone using the specific supermarkets.

Send to the following FREEPOST addresses:

Tesco Customer Services
FREEPOST SCO2298
Dundee
DD1 9NF

Sainsbury’s
FREEPOST ANG20589
PO Box 137
Wymondham
NR9 5BR

Freepost RSJT-XEEL-XBLR
ASDA Contact Centre
Asda House
Great Wilson Street
Leeds
LS11 5AD

The Co-operative Group, Customer Relations,
Freepost MR9473,
Manchester
M4 8BA

W. H. Smith Retail Ltd.
FREEPOST SCE4410
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN3 3XS

Waitrose & John Lewis Partnership
FREEPOST SW1647
Bracknell
RG12 8HX

* The following are not FREEPOST addresses but if you send items without postage paid they have to pay anyway.

Marks and Spencer plc
Returns Department,
48 Hardwick Grange, Woolston,
Warrington,
Cheshire,
WA1 4RF
United Kingdom

Customer Service Department
Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC
Hilmore House
Gain Lane
Bradford
BD3 7DL

Tesco spoof...

Tesco vs. Denmark - the scary spoof!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSi0D7KESk&feature=player_embedded

The current Occupation and safety issues

Avalon Plastics was built in 1969. Its neighbour was the Glastonbury Rugby Club next to Street Road, now the site of B&Q. The retail site was built during the 1980s and '90s with B&Q and Wollens, etc, as a retail 'buffer' between the expanding town and industrial estate. The Avalon Plastics site was therefore the only industrial site amongst the retail sites. When Avalon Plastics closed and the site was sold, Tesco became the potential remaining retail component of the retail area.
If not for the failure to meet with local and national planning policies, by potentially driving retail traffic through an industrial area and along unsuitable roads, and the failure to provide pedestrian and bicycle access from the retail side (and across the existing Ransom Strip along Wirral Park Road), there may already have been a retail store trading on the site.
To develop the site, there must be an extensive decontamination of the buildings and land, something that has yet to be started. Now, with an occupation of the site in progress, the issue of the state of the old building has been raised. Whilst the condition of the site is little different to many other closed industrial sites, it should be noted that before being suitable for human occupation and use, it MUST be decontaminated.

The potentially hazardous materials present on the site, lead to the following considerations:
- Asbestos - various types used in the roofing and manufacturing.
- 40 years of the processing of materials of the plastics industry, including releasing agents, industrial oils and a wide range of plastic materials and fillers.
- The flooring of the main building is unsealed and so will be contaminated with a combination of the above materials.
- The buildings, including the offices, are unfit for human habitation due to types of dust, vapours, and other forms of contamination, from the main building.
- The site is filthy and cannot be cleaned properly due to no electricity or proper cleaning equipment. This means that what cleaning has been done was by brush and/or domestic equipment which are clearly inadequate for the job.

The proposals for a 'community centre' and/or 'gallery' in the buildings, a vegetable and local produce market, and the creation of a pizza oven (for 'donation') before the site is decontaminated have not properly considered the serious risks to health presented by the site, especially to people not taking precautions with safety clothing, dust-masks, etc. Preparing food and drinks for consumption on site is clearly unsafe.

On the leaflets that were handed out on the High Street recently was the question: "How have TESCO managed to get permission to retail food on a site only a stone's throw downwind from Street and Glastonbury's sewage works?", yet food and drink is being provided on the site already!
As the Red Brick Building cafe is fully functional and Bride's Yard Shop has been selling foods for many years, both very close to the sewage works, the issue is not the proximity to the sewage works but the industrial residue which will remain on the site until the existing derelict buildings are demolished and the site is professionally cleared and decontaminated.

Whilst the sentiments of the occupation are mostly admirable, due to the serious hazard to participants and visitors, the Tesconbury focus group cannot recommend the occupation at this time and urge caution to anyone thinking of being on the site. We feel that use of the existing derelict buildings for any kind of food and drink preparation is inappropriate and irresponsible, and should cease immediately.

Comments invited...

Tesco Betrayal!

Anger rises as Tesco keeps its £140,000!

http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Anger-rises-Tesco-keeps-pound-140-000/story-13381789-detail/story.html

Tesco don't want to pay for anything! They're so wealthy yet too tight to pay for a proper plan using proper retail access from a proper retail road. They're too mean to pay for the Ransom Strip yet have apparently been led to believe that they would get permission for their rotten plan even though it flouts both Local and National Planning Policies. And now they're withdrawing the 'sweetener' that they promised, which was to 'offset' the likely losses to local retailing in Street and Glastonbury.
Will local councillors and planning committees tolerate this betrayal and still give permission for the Tesco store, even though doing so would be against Planning Policies and therefore a Misuse of Public Office and Public Funds?

Comments invited!

FYI - Occupation

A copy of the letter given to the Occupy group at the Avalon Plastics building and site.

More attention could be given to the issue of the bad Tesco plan that breaches both Local and National Planning Policies by driving retail traffic through an industrial site and along roads not built for such traffic (Beckery Road and Dyehouse Lane), by not having local pedestrian and bicycle access on the nearest boundary along Wirral park Road, by increasing traffic distance to travel to access the entrance to the site and thereby massively increasing emissions and wear to roads which in turn increases congestion, and by the refusal of Tesco to purchase the Ransom Strip along the front of the potential retail access of Wirral Park Road which has forced the various breaches of the Planning Policies and led to the proposed store having its back to Glastonbury.
The suggested creation of 225 new jobs, by approving the proposed Tesco store, is in stark contradiction to the Tescopoly site statistic which says that on average 276 jobs are lost in each community where a Tesco/other supermarket 'superstore' is built and operating. The jobs created may mostly be part-time and unskilled (generally agreed statistics), signifying a poor gain if any. The suggestion of such an increase in jobs would appear to be sufficiently in doubt, even taking into account a smaller store and less impact than a 'superstore', bringing further question about the only potential benefit for the area.
These issues raise other questions about the planning process that has led to the local planning committee and MDC planning office giving approval to the proposed Tesco supermarket. How can local planners approve a plan that is in breach of policies and has little or no gain, and may be seriously detrimental, for the the town and area? Who really owns the Ransom Strip and is it really so expensive that Tesco can't afford it? Why do the local and area planners not insist on proper retail access via Wirral Park Road in accordance with their own official policies? Is Public Office being 'misused' in any way? Are public funds being spent inappropriately? Who are the local and MDC Councillors who are approving the Tesco plan? Are other persons involved who are not in public office and therefore have no right to administer public funds? To what degree have local businesses and producers been consulted and included in wider opportunities for locals to make informed objection to the very bad plan?
Some folk will be asking such questions and may want to discuss the issues more widely!

The invitation to view the previous posts (going back about 2 years!) is extended to folk wanting more information on wider issues.
Comments invited!

Avalon Plastics building Occupation

Anyone seeing this may want to attend in the morning...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQwl9AR0BKc&list=UUqXeJe5J89G6r8QnmNNX_gQ&feature=plcp