Captain Kernow

I see that ASDA have upped the deadline for signing, allowing the workers another week to sign what few rights they have away. Mainly due, I suspect, to the "unfortunate" national publicity their new contract has received.  One might almost think that the authors of the reportedly draconian contract they are imposing have never worked on the shopfloor in their lives.

They say that the new contract is similar to those common in other retail groups, but that's no reason to implement something that will be misused by petty local management.

To be honest, even if we DO have a change of government by the 13th December, workers rights will be low down on the list of priorities, compared with the ongoing Euro-Omnishambles...

Race to the bottom, it's sickening and it's a symptom of the ever widening gulf between rich and poor in our society. There's a nasty strand of thought that promotes the idea that there shouldn't be a right to fair shares of societies goods that somehow we have to show that we deserve it by earning it. It sets ordinary citizen against ordinary citizen and serves as a smokescreen to those whose vast wealth is generated by the work of  others. B*st*rds.

Fair comment, unfortunately.