Newtown Tesco jobs advertised in Slovakia
Monday 9th May 2011, 3:28PM BST.
Jobs at a Mid Wales supermarket are being advertised in Slovakia.
Tesco in Newtown is believed to be advertising in the eastern European country for workers at its store in Pool Road. The revelation has angered some Newtown residents who claimed any job vacancies at the store should be filled by people living in the area, and has been branded a disgrace.
But the supermarket giant, which has opened stores in Newtown, Llandrindod Wells and Welshpool in the last 18 months, claimed it was advertising vacancies abroad because of a lack of interest locally.
The company said the measure was a last resort when positions could not be filled within the community.
Councillor Joy Jones, Mayor of Newtown, today described the news as shocking.
“If this is true then I’m absolutely disgusted. The store should be advertising jobs locally because there are very few about at the moment and a lot of people are struggling to find work and live,” she said.
“I intend to find out what is happening and if it is that the store is advertising in Slovakia then I won’t be happy.”
Dan Jones, a resident from Newtown, said it was a huge blow to hundreds of unemployed people in the town.
He said: “I have been told that Newtown’s Tesco is advertising in Slovakia for workers.
“I don’t mind people coming to work or live in this country one bit, but when you have hundreds of people in the town without jobs, it is a disgrace. These jobs should be offered to people in Newtown first.”
And Councillor Sue Lawson added: “There is already too many people in Newtown out of work and actively looking so if this is the case for the town’s store I think its disgusting. I think it will put a lot of people off shopping there if it is true.”
A Tesco spokeswoman said: “At Tesco we always try to recruit staff from local communities.
“In spite of intensive local recruitment drives and advertising, we can’t always fill vacancies so we have to widen our search.
“It is much more expensive for us to recruit UK staff from elsewhere in Europe, and that’s another reason why we only do this as a last resort.”
By Andrew Morris
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That’s appalling come on TESCO jobs for us not foreigners maybe its time we should stand together and boycott TESCO’S
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the peolpe of newtown should not shop there if that is wat tescos r doing //
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this better be a joke??? At a time when need to look after our own, we offer to immigrants?? This is typical Britain. Its time to ship out any “Guests” and re employ UK residents. And try and restore this country back to what its supposed to be – Great Britain, not this butlins holiday camp for tourists that we have allowed it to become.
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What happened to helping our own people first?!!?
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Our own people didn’t want a Tesco in Newtown. This is the Tesco way of saying ” Up Yours “
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Well most people in Newtown i know arent interested in working at “just” a supermarket. I think Tesco will get some good commitited and hard workers from slovakia and this will help make the store increase profits
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and where are all these workers from Slovakia and their families going to live? Where are their children going to go to school and who is going to pay for their education? Where are they going to get any medical treatment they need and who is going to pay for that? There is far more to this than a handful of people coming over here to work at Tescos.
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They will, its why they will have tax deducted from their salaries.
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I doubt if they will earn enough to pay tax
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You argument is quite silly Elizabeth. A full time job (37.5 hours) at national minimum wage (assumed over 21) earns the employee £10674 before tax. The tax free allowance is £7475 meaning they would pay £639.80 per year tax on taxable income of £3199 @ 20%)
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I’m afraid that when it comes to large multi-national companies, including Tesco and many others, there is no loyalty whatsoever to any particular geography or group of employees.
As well as moving jobs and people around, where they can they will also move profits made in this country abroad to avoid paying tax to the UK exchequer – and the current government, in the midst of all their talk of debt and ‘we’re all in this together’ are actually in the process of making it easier for large firms to ‘offshore’ their profits.
There’s no point in blaming Slovakians for this – they have a right to work here, just as we do to work there. The problem lies with greedy, exploitative employers, who will cynically exploit workers in Britain and abroad in their zeal to turn every economy into a low-wage economy.
Over the weekend there were headlines indicating that the richest people in the country were now doing a great deal better than they were before the recession, and that their finanaces had more than ‘recovered’ from the recession that their greed and risk-taking created.
Anyone else feel that they’ve ‘recovered’ in terms of their pay? Anyone else feel comfortable with the idea that the rich, like the rest of us, are ‘all in this together’? Thought not!
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Well said, Peter.
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The typical response to a story like this. Now lets look at the truth….
Why are the jobs being advertised outside of the UK? Answer: Because the benefits system in this county means most people would be worse of working at Tesco than they would on benefits! Housing benefit, council tax paid for, job dodgers … sorry seekers allowance etc. after all of that and more, its not uncommon for an idiot with no intention of working to need to earn £30k a year to be better off! I got it all wrong and chose to work hard, I will be successful and pay hideous taxes to the lazy.
The rich get richer, fantastic… now stop moaning and try and be one of them! Im certainly trying to, but is it really that fair that as a reward for their success the rich pay obscene levels of tax?
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Squire,
The vast majority of housing benefit is paid to people who are in work.
The rich do not pay obscene levels of tax – far from it. Whilst you and I and the vast majority of working people will pay somewhere between 30% and 40% of our gross income in tax and NI, the very wealthy typically pay less than 10%, thanks to the wide (and widening) variety of tax loopholes, both legal and illegal, at their disposal.
I don’t mind anyone getting wealthier through their skills or efforts, but why shouldn’t they pay the same proportionately in tax and NI as the rest of us?
Turning back to the ‘benefits trap’ – I agree there is a problem there – but it’s not a case of people being too lazy – the principal problem is the high cost of childcare in this country. More enlightened countries in Europe provide a much better level of free or affordable childcare – if we did so we’d be in a better position to insist that people worked.
The answer to this is not to reduce the benefits, but to increase our low minimum wage to a level where the state no longer needs to subsidise the profits of large, highly profitable employers by topping up their poverty wages.
So why are Tesco advertising in Slovakia? Sadly it’s because they know that there will be people prepared to leave their kids in the care of relatives and move here to live in very poor living conditions to take these low-paid jobs.
It’s a cynical, greedy and immoral approach, but it will become more prevalent as we are forced to join the race to the bottom in terms of working conditions.
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Peter, feel compelled to register total respect for this and your other posts but also, living in Slovakia and being rather a pedant, to pick up on your penultimate paragraph.
I’m not convinced that’s the case anymore. It would have been in the 2004-2006 post-accession era but today, with the pound down against the euro (which Slovakia adopted in 2009), the financial benefits for parents of leaving their children with relatives or uprooting them and bringing them to the UK have become rather reduced.
To say nothing, of course, of the emotional aspects, or of the fact that a job in a faraway branch of Tesco is not likely to be a great step forward in one’s career.
My experience now is that Slovak people who have decent (ie professional and/or relatively well-paid) jobs here will tend to hold onto them while those who get made redundant will take courses (eg in languages) and bide their time rather than boarding the first coach or Ryanair flight to the UK.
If any Slovaks are eagar to come and work in Newtown, I suspect they’ll be younger, single people, perhaps including new university graduates. That might go some way towards answering Elizabeth’s point above – also a reasonable one given that Newtown’s quite a small place.
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The super rich went into full throttle under Bliar and Brown, that’s when the super rich really made it! the increasing gap between rich and poor was never really mentioned then.
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If this is true, it’s an outrage. What is the perceived advantage when the minimum wage applies to all employees? Are Tesco implying that potential employees here are of a poorer calibre than other europeans? I think we should find out.
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perhaps its people in the uk and this area aren’t applying for the positions (maybe they think these positions are beneath them, reject working for min wage, dont support Tescos, think they are better off on benefits than working?) whatever if Tesco could get workers locally then unlikely they would need to go to such lengths to recruit. If the locals are so much better than the ‘imports’ then they should certainly win out any screening by application and interview, so nothing to fear.
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5 Peter
A Labour Government put us in this mess and did nothing to stop our jobs going abroad.
Never Again.
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Did they? How? Where are your facts?
My recollection is that a significant decision was made in the 1980s, under a Tory government, to rely upon so-called ‘service industries’ for our future employment. Manufacturing was definitely not popular with the government at the time. Principal amongst these life-saving service industrieswas the financial services industry – and look where that led us.
In truth governments of both colours have failed to stop the loss of UK jobs to multi-national predators – these employers believe they are beyond legislation in that respect.
The Government’s excuse is that if we don’t kow tow to these employers they’ll leave – yet unlike trade unionists who strike for a little extra pay, they never seem to be accused of ‘holding the country to ransom’.
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The answer lies in your feet do not go into Tesco, shop elsewhere, if enough people do this they will eventually get the message. I will not step into Tesco, and even more reason now not to, if the like eastern workers so much open in the eastern countries.
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Tesco is an international company which includes 87 stores in Hungary, 105 in Poland and 37 in Slovakia.
As these countries are within the European Union they have as much right to work in the UK as we do in their respective countries.
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That is true. So, no problem disdaining UK workers in favour of imported labour then? That supports Tesco’s claim to be helping to drive the economy by creating employment, does it? I suppose I’m a closet racist for daring to think that it’s an outrage not to find local employees (I don’t buy the old flannel about none being suitable.)
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I don’t think the issue is whether or not a citizen of country A has the right to work in country B.
It’s a case of Tesco allegedly advertising jobs for its Newtown store in a different country and bypassing local employment channels, denying the local community – which it goes to great lengths to convince that it’s doing them a favour by coming to their town – the same opportunity. If it turns out to be true then it’s genuinely scandalous.
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I’ve had discussions before on this forum with people who think that cheap food is the be all and end all. The trouble is, most of the time the dubious practices that lead to low prices are “out of sight and out of mind” or “somebody else’s problem”.
This is probably the most tangible example I’ve seen yet that illustrates to a local audience the true cost of cheap food.
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Millions unemployed and companies have to advertise vacancies abroad! SOmething wrong somewhere.
Here’s my take on it: People from English speaking countries don’t want to work.
I work for a company here in the U.S. Which needs employees, who pays good wages and offers good benefits. However Americans don’t want to work here. In fact Americans are in the minorities. We have Africans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, various nationals from various south American countries, etc etc + one Scot (Me).
Our machinery is all manufuctured in Germany and of course we have German engineers and technicians in.
I can only deduct from all this that English people don’t want to work or are only capable of working in the computer field or the earn a lot for not alot field.
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The last time I looked at the map Newtown was in WALES, so the tabloid-fuelled chestnut about reluctance of the ENGLISH to work does not apply. Tesco is however a ruthless international company so one can only guess what their motives are in seeking to recruit from the far ends of Europe rather than from the good people of Newtown. If our labour is not good enough for them then perhaps they can do without our custom as well.
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Very Strange, every time I’ve been into the Newtown store never any jobs vacancies to be seen. For Tescos this might be a quick fix but is sure to lead to social problems in time!
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The Madeley Tescos has a sign up saying you can no longer apply for jobs there, you have to go to the Tesco website as all job applications are being handled centrally.
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Not every one has access to the internet, and there’s no sign I’ve seen there advising people, not quite every little helps!
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Yes they do, its free to use at any local Library or Job Centre which is where most people who actually want a job ( instead of looking for any excuse not to look for one ) usually start their search..
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The argument that British people don’t want to work (particularly at a supermarket) does not add up. For example, just last week the Star printed a story stating that there had been 900 applicants for just 33 positions at the new Waitrose store in Shrewsbury.
Importing cheap labour from Europe may be good for the profit-margins of the large multi-national corporations but it is a complete myth that immigrants from Eastern Europe are good for the British economy as a whole. They may work hard and you cannot blame them for wanting to make as much money as possible in the relatively short time they are over here but they tend to send the majority of their earnings back to their homeland and spend as little as possible whilst in Britain, which means the money is pumped straight out of the local economy.
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Anyone who is an EU citizen, which includes you if you’re British, can work freely in any EU country. It suits me and millions of others to have this access to work throughout the EU nations. Anyone working here is paid the going rate and the minimum wage rules apply so it’s not a case of importing cheap labour and anyone is free to spend their earnings whereever they like. If they work here the chances are they will spend here anyway won’t they? They will also pay back their share of income tax and NI.
The reason why so many people applied to Waitrose in Shrewsbury is for the generous fringe benefits workers get when they work for the John Lewis group, it’s obvious.
Your arguement sounds suspiciously again, like so many others, of nothing more than homophobia.
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a.g.bell: are you implying that EU workers are homosexual? people who oppose importing of cheap EU labour are homophobic???
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sorry, and thank you for pointing this out. Either my spell checker seems to have incorrectly inserted homophobia when xenophobia was the term I intended using or I made a totally accidental slip of the pen.
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“Your arguement sounds suspiciously again, like so many others, of nothing more than homophobia.”
…and your comment sounds suspiciously like one made by someone with a pretty poor grasp of the English language…
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Well, that sure makes a change from the tired and raggedy old label of “Xenophobia”. Good grief.
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Why are people to good to work in a supermarket?? a job is a job who cares what you do for a living ? only the shallow and poorly brought up or the people who suffer from low self esteem and are unhappy with the way their life has gone. Stack those shelves with a happy smile better than the dole.
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Simple, don’t shop at Tesco. Their prices are not brilliant, anyway.
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u never see any job averts in the shop just sorry no vac i suppose hits cheper for tesco best not shop there in future
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Don’t blame the Slovakians – blame the Lib/Lab/Con parties and their fat-cat friends in big business.
Oh, and if anyone in Newtown voted for any of the Lib/Lab/Con traitor parties last week – Then blame yourselves too!
You get what you vote for.
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What does any of that have to do with this article?
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At the time of commenting, the story states that: “Tesco in Newtown is believed to be advertising in the eastern European country for workers at its store in Pool Road”, so it’s not known for sure yet whether or not this is actually the case.
If this is so, then it is also reported that they have had difficulty recruiting locally, so again, assuming that’s the case, who can blame them for advertising overseas? Just take a look at any job vacancy website and you’ll find plenty of overseas opportunities advertised over here to us Brits. How then can we moan if locals are not prepared to apply, and we have just as much right to apply for advertised foreign vacancies? That’s a bit one sided is it not?
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people with no intention of building a permanent life in the uk can come over temporarily and accept lower wages – live cheaply and have money left over to send home. a local person cant compete in this race to the bottom!
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Just like British construction workers did in Germany back in the early 1980s recession then?
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Is someone having a laugh.
No local interest in jobs the state this country is in.
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Simple answer to this is to get people not to use the store, boycott it, just dont use it. use the other supermarket that is in newtown.
If they are not getting people through the door, then they will not need help from abroad.
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Has anybody managed to find any of these so called vacancies on Tesco’s website ? I have looked on several occcasion for all jobs within a 40 mile radius of Welshpool and nothing reports. Neither do they show via the JobCentre.
How are the positions going to be filled locally if they don’t tell us ?
The development of Tesco’s in Newtown completely messed up the traffic system through the town. This is the final straw !!
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tesco are a very vicious company when it comes to the rights and feelings of the people.think back a few weeks to riots in bristol,thanks to tesco.i agree boycott tesco,drive them out its not like we dont have other more people concious supermarkets to choose from.
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How dare they offer me an easy and convenient way to shop………tssssk shame on them
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A number of issues come to mind here. Firstly Tesco is a large company in the private sector which is free to advertise for potential employees wherever it sees fit. If, as the article suggests, there is a lack of local interest then why not advertise elsewhere including Slovakia?
The article also suggests “it is believed to be” advertising in Slovakia thereby suggesting some doubt as to whether this is true or just local rumour. When such elements of doubt are alluded to I do question the purpose of such an article other than to fan flames of a xenophobic nature.
Those in Britain who are so quick to claim foreigners are taking “our” jobs need to consider a couple of things. If the jobs are “ours” by right then why is there such a lack of interest in Newtown? Also Slovakians or people of any other EU country are free to apply for work here just as we are free to apply for work there. The route to work overseas goes in more than one direction after all.
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WHAT MORE DID WE EXPECT!
POWYS COUNTY COUNCIL PROBABLY PAID FOR THE ADVERTS.
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WHAT A JOKE TESCO IS A RIP OFF ANYWAY BEST TO STAY AWAY FROM GREEDY COMPAINES LIKE TESCO I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE A PART TIME JOB AT TESCO GREEDY TESCO CAN SPEND SPEND SPEND ON NEW STORES NOT SURPRISED HOW MUCH FOOD IS IN STORE
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Kelly,
Tescos sell cheap keyboards, ones that have a button called caps lock, looks like yours is broken.
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And full stops and commas.
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I’m from Shropshire and have lived in Slovakia for 8 years so have followed this story with some interest.
Peter, a.g.bell and Mark have said pretty much what I would say on the issue as a whole and A.J. provides welcome statistics. To back you up on that, I live in Zilina, a town of 100,000 people and there are three Tesco stores here ; a hypermarket, supermarket and smaller store (Tesco Express?).
I can only provide a little Slovak perspective. Firstly, I can’t lightly dismiss what Howard Moon says in No 12. Slovak people who come to the UK do often save on accommodation costs by sharing flats, houses etc and that can enable them to undercut British workers in terms of the wages they’d accept. That said, though, surely Tesco are paying the minimum wage??
But that is not the whole story. One of my jobs here is teaching English on adult evening courses and I’ve met dozens of locals (Slovaks) who’ve either worked in the UK or plan to. I knew one man who’d had only the basic education here, went to work in a warehouse in Scunthorpe(!) for two years, learned conversational English, came back and passed a Cambridge English exam within 12 weeks.
There are others with university educations prepared to start at the ‘bottom’ in a British company and work their way up to a management position. There are people who fall in love with Britain and its culture and want to stay (and perhaps start a family) and others who can take or leave the place and ultimately want to return to Slovakia. It should be obvious, but immigration is a complex thing.
Two final things though :
1. In 8 years here, I haven’t met one single Slovak who’s expressed the remotest interest in the UK benefits system. All simply want to work and better themselves.
2.Danny P, your post is ill-informed, spiteful nonsense.
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Good response, James, but it blurs the issue – which is not one of race, but of Tesco’s perceived disloyalty to the people of the UK – it’s customers. A little internet research reveals that Tesco do seem to have a track record for not being able to recruit suitable employees in the UK. Astonishing, isn’t it?`
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Thanks Bob. You make a decent point there – there’s plenty that troubles me in Tesco’s practices.
All I was trying to do was provide a little human context from a Slovak perspective. I disagree with you that it blurs the issue, and for this reason ; the problem with a story like this is that the people perceived to be ‘taking’ the jobs often get dehumanised – dismissed as ‘immigrants from Eastern Europe’ – when, in fact, they are mostly normal decent people who simply want to work and improve their life prospects.
For evidence of my point, and apologies for repeating myself, see Danny P above.
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Bob, for unknown reasons, an earlier reply appears to have fallen victim to the moderator.
I agree completely about Tesco’s practices but I don’t believe I’m blurring the issue. I’m just trying to humanise people who otherwise could be dismissed simply as ‘immigrants from Eastern Europe’.
Clearly, there’s an important human story here about the people of Newtown. There’s also one about those who may (but may not) travel to work there.
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James, a good post that provides decent perspective, but the facts remain that Tescos “extensive recruitment campaign” is utter nonsense.
NO evidence of this on their own webiste, in the local media, on the Direct Gov website, and, most clearly of all, if they wanted to take people on, then surely the epmty vacancies board in the store would be full? I havent seen ONE vacany advertised in the store since it opened.
My daughter has applied and was told 6 months ago there were no vacancies, but her application would be held on file……..
I’ll be shopping at Morrissons from now on.
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Agreed, and all the best with your stand.
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English workers going over to Slovakia and taking their jobs, you should be ashamed of yourself ( joke ).
ps, is there a Slovakian version of the Daily Mail ??
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Oh yes, different concerns perhaps but right-wing vitriol is all too alive over here.
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Dont believe their propaganda about local people not being interested. Only a few miles down the road in Shrewsbury 900+ applied for 33 jobs in Waitrose.
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so do we actually know the truth with this story? if the jobs where advertised locally and not filled then the people of newtown need a kick up the backside and people need to stop snipping at tesco.
if on the other hand, the jobs have not been advertised locally then shame on tesco.
too many people in this country cant be bothered to work. no good blaming the benefit system either.
what is the truth?
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I agree with the whole argument that anyone who wants the jobs can have them, regardless of which country in the EU you were born in. As you will all know, Newtown is very close to the Wales/England Border, just imagine what uproar there would be if people in relatively nearby towns and villages were not allowed to apply for these jobs at Tesco becuase they were from the English side of the border. Same difference!
What I would say about it though is that I can’t see the jobs advertised in-store, Job Centre or on the Tesco website, so is there any truth in this story in the first place. If there is and the local people really don’t want the jobs, then there’s a lot of places to advertise and probably a lot of people who would like the jobs between Newtown and Slovakia. So this story really doesn’t seem to ring true for me.
On a slightly lighter note, if there was any job vacancies then they could easily be filled by the people while they are sitting in the traffic jams!
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And they’ll be trilingual? Able to speak English, Slovakian and Welsh?
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Not beyond the bounds of possibility in a few cases, I’d say – except that it’s Slovak, not Slovakian.
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But highly unlikely.
However, thanks for the correction, James. As you point out, Slovakian refers to the people who speak Slovak, not the language itself.
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My daughter applied for a job at Newtown Store, AND Welshpool and was told at both there were NO vacancies as they were already filled!
“Extensive recruiting campaign” – can someone provide me with some evidence of this? If you look on the Direct Gov job search site, there has been nothing for Tesco on there in the last 6 months I have been looking (employed but looking to have a change), there are NO adverts on the Vacancies board in the store near the checkouts, there has been NOTHING in the local medai, and there has been NOTHING on the Tesco website for local vacancies.
Is that their idea of EXTENSIVE??
This is, frankly, disgusting, and I call upon all the people of Newtown who are as angry about this as I am to vote with their feet and shop in Morrissons instead, the only way we can show them we are not happy is to vote with our feet and hurt them in the pocket.
I was all for Tesco coming to Newtown…… seems like we have been hoodwinked yet again.
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Given that there is some doubt to the truth of this story – can the Star please provide the evidence upon which they believe that these jobs are being advertised in Slovakia?
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The use of the phrases ‘it is believed’ and ‘the revelation’ do make you wonder. Meanwhile, if I here of any Slovaks heading for Newtown I’ll let you know.
However, it appears that there are/have been jobs to fill but that local people have been given no fair opportunity to apply (as exemplified by Mr Walker’s posts). That in itself is appalling.
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So come on Shropshire Star – come on Andrew Morris – what exactly is the basis for your story?
Do you have any direct evidence for this supposed advertisement of jobs in Slovakia, or have you simply recycled an old (and possibly grossly exaggerated!)tabloid headline?
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I tried ringing Tesco Head Office to verify the allegation (in fact, it was reported by the BBC in March) but I got no reply. I then (politely) e-mailed customer services and guess what? No reply! I think Tesco have grown too big and too arrogant. I shall take my trade elsewhere. I hope others will too.
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I’m sure Tesco are distraught!
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What a lovely individual you are.
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Leaving aside the specifics of this debate (which, for me, has left more questions unanswered than answered), I wouldn’t be so dismissive of people taking an individual stand like this.
For 14 years, I’ve been actively boycotting McDonalds. I’m not deluded enough to think that their top management hold regular crisis meetings in an attempt to resolve this matter and, sadly, I haven’t single-handedly been able to prevent them branching out into cafes or whatever else they do now.
But I do enjoy the feeling that at least this small area of my life is guided by principle. A more surprising, but welcome, side-effect is that I’ve pretty much gone off fast-food altogether.
I could definitely see the appeal of steering clear of Tesco if only because, every time I do go into one, the experience is nothing other than utterly joyless.
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My son has been into Tesco in Newtown on numerous occasions and been told there are no jobs, I also applied for employment at the Welshpool store before it opened and was told they were only taking staff from the local Welshpool area. Why are they are not interviewing and recruiting staff locally and advertising jobs abroad?
I hope Tesco are going to privately house the people they recruit from abroad as there is already a shortage of council and housing association houses in the area?
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This smells, doesn’t it Cath? There’s something not right going on.
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Could it be that you and your son were not suitably qualified??
Like any company, they have the right to choose who they employ, irrespective of their county of origin provided the employee is legal.
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i work there. they tell us there are no available hours whatsoever. i have been trying to get more hours for over 2 years. if they bring ppl from over there then i will leave. and i won’t be the only one.
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Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face!
It also seems a little odd that you’ve been trying to get more hours for over 2 years seeing as this branch only opened in Feb 2010!
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Please help us stop this happening in our town too
Whitchurch is a small historic market town in North Shropshire (SY13) which already has a 3750sqm Tesco in the centre. Rather than develop this, they propose to retain half as a Tesco Extra and build a 5574sqm superstore on designated recreational land (Rugby club) next to a residential area. This would include a 12 pump petrol station, parking for 647 cars & coaches, access being via a new roundabout directly opposite our Town school. The application includes a floodlit transport yard, new rugby club house with late function licence and flood lit pitches to 3 sides of an existing old people’s Nursing home. Further it is an attempt to block more modest schemes by other national retailers which might promote footfall to our high street and give the residents some choice.
We have already lodged a petition of approximately 1/3 of the residents saying we don’t want or need this new store.
Please help us object at
Ref 11/01501/EIA
http://planningpa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=LJ4QB8TD02B00
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There’s only one role advertised on the Tesco site based at the Newtown store:
Retail Department Manager (£20,000 – £24,000)
http://www.tesco-careers.com/job.cfm/reference/1183059/source/WCN/
If I had to guess, I would say that this is a complete non-story. Given that you can access international roles (outside the UK) from the Tesco website, this no-doubt means from Slovakia you can also see all international roles (including those in Newtown).
“Tesco in Newtown is believed to be advertising in the eastern European country for workers at its store in Pool Road.” – Yes, they probably are, if you could advertising all vacancies on one central site that is accessible from Slovakia.
Storm in a teacup…
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I worked at Newtown Tesco store from when it opened until i was told i would not be given a permanant contract. My temporary contract was coming to an end and i was informed that my employment ceased at the end of June 2010. When i asked why i was told that they needed to cut back hours on the checkouts and there was about 6/7 of us made to leave. I enjoyed my job at Tesco and was very upset that i had to leave. If this story is true i am so angry as it has proved very difficult to find another job and not from lack of trying.
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i applyed 3 times to tescos for a job and got turned down three times , not all of us want to sit on our backsides all day,i want to work and bring up my kids with the sense that if you want something in life you have to work for it , but how can i should my kids this when i keep getting turned down , all my kids are learning is that being british does not mean your intitled to be first in the very long queue for a job , its like sit back kids and just watch the foreigners get the job that youve appled for, its an absolute disgrace ,
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Its quite simple folks, vote with your feet and shop elsewhere and tell all your friends and family to shop elsewhere too. The only way to defeat an organisation like this is to not give them any of your hard earned money which they then use to fight against you……
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