The bullying extends to the suppliers themselves. Green Isle Foods, makers of Goodfellas Pizza and Tesco own brand pizza, have been found guilty of unfairly dismissing three employees last year by the Irish Labour Court.
There is now a call for a boycott of Green Isle products and the strikers are beginning a hunger strike having been on strike since August 2009. Green Isle Foods are no better than Tesco in this respect.
On 18th December 2008, Green Isle Foods management leaked a folder containing details of their plans to lay off engineering staff. The folder was placed as an icon directly onto an employees desktop by the companies IS Dept.
The only way an employee knows whether they have permission to open particular folders, is by attempting to open them. In March 2009, information regarding engineering layoffs appeared in this folder. The person in question showed it to a manager of the company who reported this to higher management.
Good question and the answer to your question is an emphatic ‘No’. And in fact the Irish Labour Court recognised this when making their judgement.
The company tried to tarnish the reputation of the men using that story to detract from the real issue, which was shown to have been a failing of the company’s IS security systems. The Labour Court with all the information of the case before them, realised this.
Now that they have been found out by the Irish legal system, public support for the boycott is stronger than ever. The Irish Labour Court recommended that the victimised employees be returned to their positions.
Until this happens, customers should consider the behaviour of Green Isle Foods, makers of Goodfellas Pizza, when shopping.
God bless them.
I always had a couple of the goodfellas pizzas for during the week but you if a company cant treat it’s own workers fairly it can hardly be looking after it’s customers to.
Monday 15 February, 2010 at 5:55 pm
The bullying extends to the suppliers themselves. Green Isle Foods, makers of Goodfellas Pizza and Tesco own brand pizza, have been found guilty of unfairly dismissing three employees last year by the Irish Labour Court.
There is now a call for a boycott of Green Isle products and the strikers are beginning a hunger strike having been on strike since August 2009. Green Isle Foods are no better than Tesco in this respect.
BOYCOTT GREEN ISLE FOODS
Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 9:24 am
What was the reason for the unfair dismissal?
Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 11:39 am
http://www.labourcourt.ie/labour/labcourtweb.nsf/7a18f8963dd5836380256a01005bb358/80256a770034a2ab8025768500412bbb?OpenDocument
If this is the case in question, then fair dues. Whats happening now?
Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 12:22 pm
On 18th December 2008, Green Isle Foods management leaked a folder containing details of their plans to lay off engineering staff. The folder was placed as an icon directly onto an employees desktop by the companies IS Dept.
The only way an employee knows whether they have permission to open particular folders, is by attempting to open them. In March 2009, information regarding engineering layoffs appeared in this folder. The person in question showed it to a manager of the company who reported this to higher management.
Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Isnt there also an issue of inappropriate emails?
Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Hi Claire.
Good question and the answer to your question is an emphatic ‘No’. And in fact the Irish Labour Court recognised this when making their judgement.
The company tried to tarnish the reputation of the men using that story to detract from the real issue, which was shown to have been a failing of the company’s IS security systems. The Labour Court with all the information of the case before them, realised this.
Now that they have been found out by the Irish legal system, public support for the boycott is stronger than ever. The Irish Labour Court recommended that the victimised employees be returned to their positions.
Until this happens, customers should consider the behaviour of Green Isle Foods, makers of Goodfellas Pizza, when shopping.
Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 1:40 pm
God bless them.
I always had a couple of the goodfellas pizzas for during the week but you if a company cant treat it’s own workers fairly it can hardly be looking after it’s customers to.
Chicago town are nicer Ive found anyway.
Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Fair enough. I found the report on google and had a read of it. I dont buy those pizzas or shop in Tesco so Im no good to you either way. 😀
Wednesday 17 February, 2010 at 12:33 pm
How can this be legal??? (I mean the original Tesco “pay to play” post)