15 December 2005

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Wal-Mart - ASDA fired worker for having small change in her pocket

Wal-Mart - ASDA has fired a woman workers for having had 3 Pounds - 6 USD - in her pocket while working on the shop floor. This has sparked an angry response from her co-workers and from GMB, the British union that she is a member of. Fran Edwards has worked at the Yarmouth ASDA store for two years.

- ASDA had instructed staff to leave personal money in their lockers but ASDA have been unable to keep staff property in the lockers safe and they have been broken into and staff's belonging taken recently, GMB's Glenn Holdom said.

Many GMB members in Norfolk and Suffolk shop at ASDA and have for a long time been shocked at the treatment metered out to ASDA employees and fellow GMB members there, the union representative says.

- East Anglia is not the place for the Wal-Mart style management which treats employees as disposable assets instead of caring about them as people.