Look Behind Your M&S Meat Label

Support the Unite Campaign to Look Behind the Meat Label

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/unite-petition-look-behind-the-label

Unite believes the supermarkets' drive to make more profits is having worrying consequences for workers and communities in the UK. Unite is campaigning for retailers like M&S to put its ethical standards into practice and put consumers, workers and communities first.

In the drive to cut costs, many workers in the UK who work for companies supplying meat to M&S are experiencing harsh and divisive conditions. Often mainly migrant agency workers are being paid less for doing the same job as direct employees of the supply companies. This is not just exploitative but can lead to divided workplaces and communities, with agency workers blamed for undercutting other staff.

And in the drive to make more profits, supermarkets have switched to buying more meat from countries like Thailand and Brazil. Why? Is the meat better? Or safer? No -- surprise, surprise, it's cheaper.

We want M&S to practice what it preaches. Unite wants M&S to have the highest ethical standards in the treatment of customers and to insist upon the highest ethical standards for workers employed by companies throughout the supply chain.

How you can help:

Please sign the online petition http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/unite-petition-look-behind-the-label

Find our more about the campaign at www.tgwu.org.uk/mands

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are western companies doing enough to ensure that suppliers in developing countries apply appropriate ehical standards in the treatmenet of employees?