TESCO SLAVERY – EVERY LITTLE HELPS A POEM BY ZITA HOLBOURNE, COPYRIGHT 19 FEB 2012

TESCO SLAVERY – EVERY LITTLE HELPS

A POEM BY ZITA HOLBOURNE, COPYRIGHT 19 FEB 2012

 Every little helps Tesco say

Every little labour without pay

Helps Tesco profits grow

When the wages are zero

Every little bit of free labour

Means they can get bigger and BIGGER

Every little bit means they get richer

Whilst the poorest people just get poorer

Every little bit helps Tesco grow

Until they’re everywhere you go

Tesco extra and Tesco metro

Tesco gaming and Tesco petrol

Tesco optician and Tesco phone

Tesco bank and Tesco at home

Tesco direct and Tesco online

Tesco clothing and Tesco wine

Tesco finance and Tesco optician

Tesco sports and Tesco television

Tesco can even create a place for you to defecate in harmony and contemplation

If you sign up for the Tesco Finest Bathroom design consultation

I step out to the left and every little corner shop’s gone

And in its place is another Tesco Metro Tesco. con

I step out to the right and the post office is no longer there

But Tesco is -offering cheap mobile phones and half price beer

Tesco value range – value for who

Certainly not for me or you

Value for Tesco means engaging in slave labour

They’re snatching your friend and they’re snatching your neighbour

Work for free and they won’t promise you a job

The name of their game is to make a few bob

They’re open all night

And they’re doing all right

Making billions of pounds of profit each year

Thanks to their friends in government and to workfare

One thousand four hundred  people  worked without pay

Whilst only three hundred got to stay

This is enslavement of the unemployed

But they can’t understand why we’re annoyed

Every little Tesco Work Fare

Should be replaced with Work that’s Fair

With a living wage for every employee

Not a scheme of exploitation and slavery

Every little help that Tesco helps itself to for free

Is a crime against freedom and humanity

Every little Tesco metro

 Needs to go

Until people not profit are put first

As the Tesco bubble’s about to burst