Chicken sold in Britain’s supermarkets and fast food outlets is being fattened on soya linked to deforestation and fires across a vital region of tropical woodland in Brazil, says Greenpeace.
Supermarkets could make big cuts to the amount of plastic waste they produce by focusing on just a few ‘problem products’, a new Greenpeace report has found.
The mainly female employees from the shop floor are claiming equal pay for work of equal value when compared to predominantly male employees who work in Asda’s distribution centres.
Workers employed by Asda will have the second stage of their equal pay claim heard by the Employment Tribunal in Manchester beginning on Monday 13 May 2019.
Up to 2,500 jobs in super market supply chains could be at risk in the wake of the proposed merger of Sainsbury’s and Asda, analysis by the New Economics Foundation has found.
Workers are still paid only 5p an hour for 80-hour weeks producing clothes for leading UK retailers Primark, Tesco and Asda in Bangladesh, says a charity. This is despite the publication a year ago of a report which exposed their 'sweatshops'.
Fairtrade campaigners have expressed their alarm at the announcement by Asda Wal-Mart that it has slashed the price of loose bananas by approximately 17p per kilogram (kg) to 68p per kg.