Posts Tagged ‘Woolworths’
Some slave labour with your free range chicken?
Anybody that viewed the recent 4 Corners ‘Slaving Away’ report (4 May, 2015) would have been absolutely appalled, as I was, at what they learned. Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna lifted the lid on sham labour-hire contractors (to classify those operators exposed by 4 Corners as ‘labour-hire firms’ insults the vast majority of the ndustry who pride…
Read MoreThe Daleks are coming and many high skill jobs are not safe
Every time I shop at my local Woolworths, I join the self-service checkout queue to pay for my shopping. I don’t need or want any social interaction (‘How’s your day?’) when I shop. I am happy to scan and pack my own shopping. When I do this, I am indirectly undermining a cashier’s job at…
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