{"id":7412,"date":"2015-08-10T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2015-08-10T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T23:26:31","slug":"take-your-car-keys-shopping-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7412","title":{"rendered":"Take your car keys shopping with you"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Minto\"<\/a>\u00a0Mana vice president John Minto<\/p>\n

\"sir-peter-talley\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Small acts of civil disobedience like this are an appropriate response to the vicious attacks on workers\u2019 rights mounted by the infamous Talley brothers<\/p>\n

Back in the 1980s I was involved in the campaign to isolate South Africa because of its racist apartheid system. Appeals for boycotts were made as the best way for those outside the country to fight what the United Nations called a \u201ccrime against humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n

The sports boycott was the focus because that was where New Zealand had its most important links with South Africa. However the economic and investment boycott increased in importance on the back of the sports boycott.<\/p>\n

Consumer products from South Africa were targeted. Companies importing South African wine were picketed and normal business disrupted while people were urged to boycott the likes of South African guavas and dried apricots.<\/p>\n

Consumer boycotts themselves are difficult to make economically effective but coupled with a little bit of creative shopping their effect can be dramatically multiplied.<\/p>\n

People would go into supermarkets with their car key and quietly puncture the bags of dried apricots and scratch the labels on the wine bottles to make them unsaleable. People would also take packets of dried apricots from the shelf into their supermarket trollies and deposit them at the bottom of the deep freeze under the frozen peas.<\/p>\n

Small acts of civil disobedience like this are an appropriate response to the vicious attacks on workers\u2019 rights mounted by the infamous Talley brothers described in\u00a0this excellent blog post by Mike Treen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Treen describes them as \u201creactionary corporate murderers\u201d and who could disagree?<\/p>\n

And their attitudes to women? Treen\u2019s article reports this:<\/p>\n

The company also lost a landmark case about equal pay for women. They had refused to allow a woman to become a\u00a0filleter\u00a0at their plant. The response of Andrew Talley was to dismiss the decision as a joke. \u201cIn any job there are attributes that suggest it will be more likely to be done by either a man or a woman \u2013 that doesn\u2019t mean you discriminate,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are jobs \u2013 pole dancing being one and fish filleting being another \u2013 that have a higher predominance of either men or women. The decision is a joke.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

What a Neanderthal! Andrew\u00a0Talley is the Donald Trump of New Zealand business.<\/p>\n

If you buy Talley\u2019s products now \u2013 STOP \u2013 and tell your friends and family to stop too.<\/p>\n

And if you feel as outraged as you should at this company with workers\u2019 blood all over its hands then take your car keys shopping with you.<\/p>\n

Products to Boycott<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marketed under<\/p>\n

Talleys<\/strong><\/p>\n

Icecream (Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me<\/a>,\u00a0Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me Guilt free<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Peas, beans, corn, spinach, carrots, mixed vegetables<\/p>\n

Mussels,\u00a0Talleys retail bags<\/a>,\u00a0Ocean Royale retail bags<\/a>,\u00a0Oyster Bay<\/a>,\u00a0Scallops<\/a>,\u00a0Squid bait<\/a>,\u00a0Hoki portions<\/a>\u00a0AND By Products:\u00a0Fish Meal<\/a>,\u00a0Fish Oil<\/a>,\u00a0Fish Fertiliser<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Open Country<\/strong><\/p>\n

Milk Powders, Milk Proteins, Milk Fats and Cheese<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

AFFCO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lamb, beef, veal, mutton, goat, leather, hides, pelts, calf skins, protein meals, tallow, casings, slipe wool, pharmaceutical blood serums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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