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Tesco fails to defend South African workers' rights
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about 1 year ago about Tesco
Workers on South African fruit farms which supply Tesco, the UK’s largest retail store, are paid only 38p an hour and have poor working conditions. The supermarket, which made a profit of over £2 billion last year, is the largest importer of South African fruit in the EU. The actress Emma Thomson, who went to South Africa with the charity Action Aid, said that women harvesting grapes “work in a big shed, and they stand for 11 hours. There’s a little break but there’s nowhere to sit… There is fantastic constitutional legislation to protect workers like these but it’s not put into practice on the ground”. She called on Tesco to ensure its suppliers of fruit in South Africa adhere to laws on working conditions.
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