Talley’s at it again – this time demanding Facebook take down boycott page

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Talley’s – butcher of workers and meat

After threatening worker rights, after trying to set up a new Union, after using hunger as a negotiating tactic that impacted 5000 children, after having the Police contact me and request blogs be taken down, Talley’s has made a complaint to Facebook to remove the ‘Boycott Talley’s’ Facebook group.

This Company’s attitude towards its workers and the high rate of mutilation and injury those workers have to put up with, should be a nationwide shame, not a reason to knight them.

Talley’s are now claiming that the MWU funds TDB – this is simply not true. The MWU were a cornerstone founder who provided funding at our establishment over 2 years ago, trying to claim critical blogs we have written here on Talley’s terrible worker rights record are because MWU are funding us is a joke.

Trust me Talley’s, we’d write about your disgraceful worker rights record for free.

Getting the cops to try and heavy blogs, contacting Facebook to close groups, undermining and smearing the Union – all this effort to just try and make more millions for the already rich off the backs of workers who do more than their fair share is everything NZ should be opposed to.

The manner in which Talley’s try to use their corporate muscle to silence critics and push workers around is a disgrace. I don’t think any ethical Kiwi can buy their products to make their bosses more millions until they do right by their workers.

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24 COMMENTS

  1. Much of what Talleys does is the kind of CORPORATE FASCISM that belongs back in the 1950s, and Talleys are like a “throw back” to the dark days of the 1951 waterfront lockout.

    For the record, I have been boycotting Talleys for many years, because I have known for a long time that they are run by a bunch of corproate fascists. However, I will now head on over to that “Boycott Talleys” Fb page and add my support!

    • I was with Mrs Winnie at the supermarket and picked up a packet of Talley’s Broad Beans. Mrs Winnie said

      “Put those back and buy Watties – don’t you know there’s a TalleyBan on?”

      We did. Boycotts work. And the power of social media to get rid of Willie Moon and Mrs Willie proves it works.

      Power to the people – continue the TalleyBan!

  2. Believe me : this company is toxic. They brook no criticism. Anywhere. Least of all from their workers, who bravely continue to stand up to them. Their actions since the calling off of the strike has gotten worse. As a trade unionist, former Labour MP and spokesperson for labour issues, I’ve never seen the like. Or maybe I did in the 1990s and I thought we’d got past those times. So expect anyway who comments on this blog, or anywhere publicly to be named in legal action from AFFCO Talleys. I’ve had my share of it already as has the MWU. Its out there, we have to stand up to up to it : thank you to all who stands with these workers. Because they are who have the courage : who need our support : and it’s not over yet : by a lot shot.

    • I always think that the only way to treat bullies is to step forward, head up and eyes forward and come back harder. They conned those members into calling off the strike on promises they had no intention of keeping – call it back on and bring in the CTU membership to create a picket they’ll think twice about antagonising again. If they want ‘those times’ back again – lets go!

  3. But wait theres more; this and other DB posts including the John Minto post are now evidence in this company’s claim to end bargaining under Section 50K of the Nats amendments. Expect a defamation letter ; MWU workers and their unions live with these threats every day. Stand with us.

  4. agree 110% with this post and it is not often you can say that on the internet!

    spread the boycott by networking, despite whatever “official steps” Talleys might take against public opponents

    may their frozen goods defrost from one end of NZ to the other!

  5. Oh…so now the not – quite – so bright – knight from Talleys is all pea-ed off and has a beef with not only their workers but TDB….seems they are a very fishy bunch of little dodgers ….

    Funny the way they manipulated a few ex Nat MP’s to do their selective union stuff , now isn’t it?….

    And when the real union threatened their pork , they got all bull headed and threatened members of the CTU.

    And if that wasn’t enough – they brought out some cock and bull story to the NZ Police…my my , ….what a complete bunch of hams they really are.

    Tell you what…if I were them….I’d be feeling mighty sheepish about showing my face in public once too often after all this…

    They say pigs don’t fly…but that might not be the case in regards their profit margins …. and that pig just might shit eggs as well , – in which case they’ll not only lose out financially but end up with egg all over their faces if they carry on like this …

  6. Great news that they’re trying to shut down the #BoycottTalleys FB page. That must mean we’re a threat to them.

  7. I can only imagine what Talleys and other sociopathic, corporate bullies do to our well intended politicians ? Would it make ‘Dirty Politics’ look like a nursery rhyme ?

    Besides. A word of caution. Learn to grow your own food to some degree. Any degree would be a good start. And never mind the herbs bollocks. Something substantial and staple. Like dope . No, just kidding. Kumara , potatoes, carrots, parsnip, pumpkin etc that keep well if done property. Learn to bottle fruits and make jams and breads . Bread is especially easy once you do it once or twice .
    Here’s a Jamie Oliver recipe for an excellent, yet simple bread.
    Get one large bowel , big enough to hold 1 kg of High Grade flour easily. Two bread loaf tins. An oven. Electricity. A can-do attitude. If your socks need pulling up then now is a good time to do so.

    Measure 1kg of high grade flour and whisk in 3 heaped tea spoons of salt into your large bowel.

    Take another, smaller bowl or jug and measure in 300 mils of lukewarm water ( Not too hot or you’ll kill your yeast. Too cold and it’ll take ages to react. )

    Blood temperature is best . If you’re not sure what blood temperature is then murder someone and dip your finger in.

    Into your blood temperature water put about 25 grams of sugar and three heaped teaspoons of bread makers yeast ( In the super market along with the packets of herbs and spices etc) and go and have a cigarette, a pipe , a beer, etc.

    After about 25 mins and the yeast has puffed up about 10 mm above the water, give it all a swirl about and pour into the flour/ salt mix and get squishing and fingering.

    At about this point you should put in another 300 mil of warm water and keep kneading until your bread mix is about the consistency of a fat mans arse cheek. Firm yet soft to the touch. Too dry ? Add a little water . Too wet and sticky add a little flour. I find it best to make my bread on the moist side. It seems to toast better and is nice to slice.

    Tip the lot out onto the kitchen bench and kneed it as if you’re strangling paula bennett. Use the ball of the hand and work to a rhythm, folding as you go and remember to use dustings of flour to the dough as required. After a few minutes, give the dough a poke with your finger, as one might do with jonky’s eye given the chance and if the dough pops back out a little you can put the mix back into the large bowl and repeat re the dope, beers, a movie even.

    This is where it gets to be fun. Like loading a dead politician, once wrapped in carpet, into the back of a freshly stolen car.

    Watch in amazement as the lump of dough comes alive and rises in the bowel ! It’s aliiiiiiivvve ! ( A thing to do also is drape a tea towel over the mix in the bowl to prevent cold drafts etc from buggering up the works .
    Once the dough mix has at least doubled in size, like gerry brownlee after his dinner and the dinners of many others, roll it out onto the bench and give it another kneading. Then, once jonky’s eye’s popped out again, cut the dough in half, place in olive oiled tins , dust the tops with flour , gently put in oven pre heated to 200 c and leave for half an hour.
    Back to your pipe and slippers .

    The smell of freshly baked bread is wonderful.

    Take from the oven , remove from the tins and place on a tea towel and let cool . Slice off an end , slap on butter and honey …. Oh.My.God !

    Ask yourself ? Could I survive a winter on what I could grow during spring and summer. If the answer is ” Fuck off ! We couldn’t get to the end of the day ! ” then you really need a reality check .

    Talleys know this only too well.

    The growing of foods is fun. And if you don’t have what you need, someone else will. Growing foods at home. In a flat, on a roof, on the road side, between the footpath and the garden fence, anywhere where there is soil, you can grow a potato or a carrot. And meet the neighbours while you’re at it. I once grew hedgerows of tomatoes almost by accident and ended up giving most of them to our elderly neighbours who returned with jars of relish and conversations.

    There’s a terrible danger in being lured away from the most basic of food production and watching Talleys throw their weight around should alarm us all.

    Watch this space about a story re The Great New Zealand Institutionalised Lie . Coming to a chill looking for a spine to run up near you.

    • “Measure 1kg of high grade flour and whisk in 3 heaped tea spoons of salt into your large bowel”… there has to be a better way…
      My proctologist would have a blue fit…

    • You are a wonder, Countryboy, but you might get a bit constipated like a fat politition or a windy mc cully if you put flour and yeast in your “bowel”a bowl might be a better option!!!
      You sound like a handy bloke to have around ,wish you lived near me.
      Keep up the revolution (whoops ) wrong word in todays open environment,but keep it up anyway,cheers.

  8. my next visit to our local supermarket i will endeavor to educate the management of my intension to boycot there store if they keep stocking talleys products and that i intend to educate all my friends as to the stores response. Waimauku SuperValue you are on notice!

  9. It is easy enough to boycott Talleys branded products, but does anybody know if there are any other products that Talleys owns and sells here? I would hate to buy one by mistake.

  10. Local supermarket only had a couple of packets of Talleys frozen peas tucked in between other brands,never have bought them myself,never will now,dont like bullys.

  11. B.T.W, which company only uses NZ based vessels and crew as opposed to other NZ companies to catch their quota allocations? Talley’s? And what company exploits cheaper vessels, offshore labour, AFL? Are the workers conditions up to NZ standards on these alien vessels? Not by what I have heard.

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