By Diarmaid Doherty
STAFF members at Tesco in Letterkenny held a picket outside the store today to highlight their opposition to controversial roster changes being introduced for some workers.
Jonathan Hogan, the assistant general secretary of the Mandate Trade Union, joined with staff members for today’s picket outside Letterkenny Shopping Centre.
Tesco Ireland are imposing significant changes to the rosters of instore ‘Dot Com Pickers’ at their shops around the country.
‘Dot Com Pickers’ are the staff members who oversee the orders made by online shoppers.
Keith Pollard, Divisional Organiser, and Jonathan Hogan, Assistant General Secretary Mandate Trade Union, pictured at Letterkenny Shopping Centre. Photo Brian McDaid.
The company has offered a once-off compensation payment to the workers involved along with a new pay scale.
But Mandate argue that the changes will cost many of these staff thousands of euros in lost annual income.
Leaflets highlighting the Mandate campaign were handed out to shoppers by union members before the picket ended in the afternoon.
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