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Tesco's US expansion comes under fire over employee rights
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7 months ago about Tesco
Protests from The United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union, an American union, have received the backing of a Labour MP, who thinks Tesco’s actions in the US threaten to undermine British business overseas. But, are the main charges (that employees have no written contract and had to count sick leave as holiday) that unusual in American business?
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