because their office is likely empty ~95% of the time as they don't ever need to be there except for meetings - which can all be done remotely with better systems....
This makes productivity worse, since it will give the workers stress. There should be a balance between controlling and freedom, because good lord this sounds like a nightmare.
As someone who worked in warehouses for years, the strikers are doing the right thing in relation to being tracked every minute of their shift. No one can work 100% for 100% of the time especially in a physically demanding job. That results in burnout.
@@westernsellers9148 I’ve seen videos where it’s those prop syringes where the needle is like a plastic rod & it goes up into the syringe when you use it.
I wish that we stuck to our principles and followed in your direction instead of being more and more of a cheap American knock off wannabe. I miss the Australia we used to be.
Corporate greed is corporate greed, no matter how you package it, but when you try to make humans work like robots with no regulars for their well being, then it's gone way too far
@@IssaMeZane When work conditions are unsafe, unions step in. Big business love people who say ‘come on staff, be grateful you have a job. Don’t complain’. Work hard hats were once not compulsory. There was once no paid holiday leave. Unions stop being workers from being walked on and they’ll do it in a split second if they get the chance Commenters who immediately take the businesses side, are useful tools for big business. Woolworths were recently requiring their workers to work in their steel roof factories that were over 35 degrees.
I used to work for another big Supermarket chain (the c word) for 18 years. They treat you worse and worse and finally replace you with automation. No talking, keep working and no living. Guess what? We live half our lives at work but aren't treated like human beings. Good on you Woolies staff alot of aussie workers know what your going through. ❤ We'll be ok keep striking!
@@EnjoyEveryMoment88 - some of us don't have a choice due to Woolworths land banking, which ensures that they're the only supermarket nearby. I have to drive half an hour to reach Coles or Aldi.
Coles, too, and any company that puts profit above staff safety & wellbeing. Too many companies are under paying staff and setting unreasonable targets. Staff just get burnt out to meet profits then replaced by a new bunch of indentured slaves.
agreed, amazon had to automate heavily to even function because of their miserable practice, woolies is too inept to automate that much but still greedy enough to screw everyone
I worked in the Wearhouse. As a female I was still expected to move as fast as a man. We could not pause the pick rate tracker to go to toilet so when you went it dropped your pick rate. Some days and weeks I did overtime yet I was still expected to pick at 100 percent every day even at the end of a overtime week. Lifting over 6000 kilos a day in an 8 hour shift for 8 hours a day. I ended up having low iron and my pick rate went down to 50 percent, I had an iron infusion. They did not even take this into consideration and I was fired. People are having multiple injuries trying to keep up with a completely unsafe performance no job or dollar is worth injuring yourself for life.
@@maniaq77 coles is likely closely watching to see if this has huge blowout or blowback to inform their 1-3 year plan or strategies. From my experience Woolworths has always been slightly ahead of coles with developments - Woolies had the delivery by independent contractors a long time ago and only in recent years gone with a completely nested independent entity with their driver mobile platform years overdue when it was touted for initial development and deployment.
The lack of empathy is disgusting. Companies make record profits whilst the employees are pushed to their limits. If we don't find empathy soon we will end up with slavery again. All I hear is excuses and rich folk just want their stuff.
We still are slaves, it’s just that the slave masters got clever. Why waste their money housing & feeding the slaves, when the slaves can do it themselves? Better yet, give the slaves options on the job they want, so that way they feel in control of their lives. “Is a slave really a slave, if the slave doesn’t know they’re a slave?” This statement would pretty much sum this up. Also if you can use hire/rent interchangeably, like you can hire or rent a car, wouldn’t that apply to humans? Hire/rent a human; just hiring sounds nicer than renting to the people being hired/rented.
This is Amazon warehouse technology, been using it there for decades. The fact it wasn't banned 10+ years ago shows what future the government wants for us.
As a former woolies warehouse worker at their DC in Perth, i only lasted 3 days before i quit. When i applied i didnt know how ridiculously they track and monitor your productivity from first minute of the shift. Felt like a slave. They put pressure on workers to achieve high targets daily. I couldnt believe some people have been there for years. There are so many other better warehouse jobs out there that treat you like a person. E.g Auspost.
@@iskoduwagoso448 haha really? I worked at Auspost warehouses in Perth for some years between 2012 and 2021. it was a chill job. zero stress. Plenty of old long-serving warehouse workers/mail officers still working there now.
Im so proud of the workers, not an inconvenience at all. This is important. Shame on Woolworths, paying for legal action, rather than paying their workers and treating them like humans.
Other well known Australian companies are already doing equivalents of this tracking - but only to the staff on the bottom on the lowest pays who already are the hardest workers in the companies. The management and CEO etc for some reason don't lead by example.
Glad you are striking!! It’s disgusting that they are not just tracking & spying on staff, but customers! They have cameras watching every customer keying in their bank card PIN numbers. It’s super CREEPY!! Especially that they want to normalise this stalking of staff & customers. It’s not acceptable EVER! Plus your striking may actually make my diet work…! :) Thank you for striking Xx
Just another reason I don’t shop at woolworths. Their greed at profits before anything else is disgusting. First they decided not to celebrate Australia Day. Now they’re pushing everyone so hard they’re unsafe at work. Boycott them now.
@@scottcarr3264 rather, laws need to be put in place like Germany, where it's illegal to monitor workers' performance electronically, as a previous comment mentioned
@@EnjoyEveryMoment88have you ever heard of human factors at work? Being pushed for 100% productivity leads to more accidents in the workplace. My partner learnt this from working in the RAF as an aircraft tech (in the UK). People make more mistakes when they're tired which can lead to fatal accidents - especially in warehouses. Think back to sweatshops in the Victorian times.
This couldn't happen to a more deserving company, I hope they go under. Coles and woolworths have been ripping off their customers and their suppliers for years. They also buy out land in surrounding areas way above asking price to prevent family owned and smaller business from opening up. My ex worked for them for a decade, ended up with a permanent back injury from being told to split the load by herself while on nightfall and yelled at by the manager when it wasn't done fast enough. Screw em.. shop at the little guys and markets
I Salute you COURAGEOUS people on the picket line . Thank you for giving this situation a reality check . In support of the Workers , I am NEVER shopping / spending one single cent at woolworrths unless / until the workers are RESPECTED !
They only way you ever get a seat at the table is via your union! The only reason you have a canteen, clean toilets, HR, Health & Safety is because of past union negotiations. Teach your children well! 🙏
💯 support the "human" worker's. It may be the Woolworths workers today but if they are not supported it will spread across the work context in every sector. But not to management, management will be exempt itself from being subjected to the same expectations. They already do!
Even though the family owned supermarket next to Woolies at my local is more expensive , I still shop there even though I’m a pensioner. I refuse to shop at Woolies. Can’t stand their cameras everywhere and supporting that fraudulent ceo and all those greedy shareholders.. stuff that
Heading towards Tracking people & listening to workers, next comes Digital ID & Face Recondition Surveillance, next they will track & decide what you buy & sell.
Bunnings are being investigated for facial recognition now. I've worked many jobs with digital kids. All modern forklift warehousing jobs to start. Pick, pack and deliver with headset tracking, voice print, digital id to use toilets and all time and movement tracked. The Reject shop distribution centre was my first. 13 years ago. More live to work instead of work to live. Constantly being watched and monitored to make sure you are going flat out. Many of my factory customers over the past few years have gone full automation. 100 staff down to a dozen monitors and a crew of fitters and turners. Competition for the big yearly profits will never consider the workers.
I worked in a huge Unilever DC that did bulk product to all the major chains. It was a new warehouse when I started and I couldn't help but think to myself. Why use people and not robots? As a society we should be trying to make life better for all. There are many jobs in the DC's that should be fully automated. There's no reason to use people when they don't have to get off the forklift all day. These jobs are mindless and soul destroying. At this job the manager didn't want people so much as talking to each other while on the floor. He would of loved to have the tracking technology.
This is how much Woolworths cares about its employees. I worked for Woolworths and was hit by a car at work, resulting in a permanent chronic pain injury. They sacked me by email with immediate effect based on a medical report they commissioned and refused to provide me with a copy. Two weeks later, they emailed, accusing me of failing to attend a meeting to discuss my employment future despite never requesting any meeting. Obviously, the regional manager never gave it a second thought after firing me.
There needs to be more news coverage on this topic. Woolworths have not learned or changed in the past decade. Expecting 100% productivity from their staff is impossible. If they had consulted experts on the anatomy of the human body, they would know physical productivity can fluctuate. Their company culture is rotten to the core. Misusing AI is a breach of AI's fundamentals in ethics and principles "do not cause harm' on the use of AI - and Woolworths have done just that!
We live in a society where profit is the primary focus of a business, so I'm not sure why people are surprised by this. As long as the business model stays the same there will be more to come. People need to unite & protest more, the people actually hold all the power , they just dont know it. Minimum wage must increase & CEO salaries must go down.
Also, I know people who have worked for woolies in distribution centres for decades. They build a new distribution centre and close the old one, creating new EBA agreements. They offer them a new role of employment and reduce their salary under the new agreement, they can take the new underpaid salary or take a payout. This is extremely common and this is a big problem, this forces experienced staff to find alternative employment leaving a huge gap of experienced seasoned workers leaving the operation exposed and being replaced by an inexperienced overwhelmed work force. Retention is important and paying staff what they are worth is the key to operational excellence, the people and culture is indeed the most valuable. Not CEO package deals 💭
They get rid of staff who have been there for years because they know their rights and they know how conditions and safety have dropped in the name of profits. It seems to be happening in every sector to frontline or lower paid staff, while CEOs and upper management get huge bonuses for cutting costs. CEIs personally benefit financially by wirking their staff into exhaustion.
Anyone who has had police follow behind them while driving will notice they are so frightened of making a mistake they start making way more mistakes than they would ever make without that level of scrutiny.
you LET them follow you? i just pull over. they can join me, or continue on. either way, i dont LET them follow me. except in those very few places one cant legally stop...
@@paradiselost9946 no they follow the traffic on purpose looking for people like you acting suspicious do you even have a licence no one reading this will believe that you do LoL.
All the big warehouses do this in some form, Toll are especially notorious for treating workers like robots. Absolute mind rotting work pick/pack - forky work. Hold the line people, glad they have stood up for themselves
And get rid of self-check-out while you're at it. Any one that uses self-check-out is TOTALLY supporting and enabling corporate greed towards Full automation (i.e ; workers getting screwed) .
Funny how the CEO and Senior Management are paid well above what they are worth. I am happy to suffer a bit of pain on behalf of the workers getting decent conditions, and decent pay.
Greedy woolworths should respect all there workers with dignity,,respect and honour. Woolworth should pay all their workers more as their staff demand a pay rise.
Track the managers , the CEOs and every other useless worker trying to implement this. Rediculous behaviour thats not being regulated and it will continue if their pockets are filled and ours arent.
@outlawGFXaus My understanding is that it's normal for Store Manager level to work additional unpaid hours every week. It's probably not openly demanded - but IMPLIED. In exchange for their seniority and higher salaries. As you know, there are so many variables in a supermarket business. It's very often the managers who cover when staff are absent, store incidents delay restocking, accidents and emergencies, theft and break-ins etc. That can add up to $000s unpaid over years of loyal service.
Their supermarket employees should strike as well. Almost 3yrs ago now I resigned after 12yrs with Woolworths. A year prior I had gone to store management to report that years of continual staffing cuts had left us chronically understaffed and literally unable to complete the daily tasks of the job, nor uphold the required standards... and I'm talking tasks including the essential cleaning of food preparation areas and equipment in fresh food departments (think cured meats, raw chicken, and seafood, as well as how dangerous poor sanitary practices can be with such items). I had to endure a whole heap of gaslighting, but after more than 2hrs of debate over three meetings across four weeks, after me catching them in their lies and pointing out their inconsistencies and hypocrisy, I finally got them to admit that I was right, we were chronically understaffed. They then proceeded to tell me, however, that they wouldn't take my concerns and feedback up the chain of command because to do so would be to risk their own jobs. That's the corporate culture at Woolworths - don't rock the boat lest you might fall out. They did tell me that they'd work with me, my colleagues, and our department manager to improve things together..... that never happened and I left 12 months later, a broken man after what felt like years of abuse. If you've not experienced understaffing or monitoring like these warehouse workers that forces you to work harder than you can sustain over the long-term you might not understand just how debilitating and demoralising it can be. I finally left Woolworths having suffered chronic stress, leading to insomnia, depression, total burnout, and having flunked out of university as a consequence. Some 3yrs on and I still haven't recovered. I don't sleep well, I'm still battling depression, I haven't returned to uni, and I have barely worked over this period. This type of workplace stress isn't productive for anyone in the long run..... and it's entirely inhumane.
Thank you for sharing your story and raising awareness. I had no idea that they were such a dodgy employer and that they put customers at potential risk due to inadequate cleaning because of understaffing.
Can confirm and then some…. Been there over 20 years. And have sadly watched standards and practices erode beyond belief. All due to increased pressure, under-staffing and mistreatment of the workforce that remains. Working in a supermarket shouldn’t be as stressful and soul crushing as it is…. But here we are. I’m glad you got out brother.🙏🏻
Sounds like a similair treatment/experience my best friend recently went through. Spoke up about it, upset upper management and ended up being let got/managed out as a result.
Worked at Coles for 9 years. 3 of those years under a particularly nasty store manager was the most stressful 3 years of my working life. More stressful than my current Software Engineering job.
If the executives want tracking technology on employees, the same tech should be applied to all executives, and made available to everyone in the company to view.
Good on them - it surprises me that this is coming as a shock to people commenting. Amazon has been tracking warehouse staff this way for years. Corporates track employees' keyboard and mouse clicks. I mean, Woolies and Coles already have all of us shoppers working for them - scanning our own shopping, and donating our purchasing data...
When I was working in an office involved with a keyboard I had my performance for the day printed out as a report at the end of the day showing how many keystrokes I was making and that to me was not an issue because I was doing my fair share of work. That was way back in the 1990s. IMO I feel as if maybe in this day and age big companies may be gearing towards replacing people with yes I am going to say it ROBOTS.
Can anyone come to a realization that Australian grocery rerailers dont care less about anything but profits. They use tracking technology not only on staff but also customers and suppliers. Powerful foreign entities want this, so be it.
@@OgglyGoogly this is the worst kind of disingenuous counter logical opposite. capitalism is by its very nature cannibalistic and in raw form deliberately omits ethics and morals, but entities dont exist - these are intangible, someone, somewhere is making a choice and ironically, duty of care is something the average Australian and worker globally can't or don't use that always gets forgotten when it suits the suits.
@@MP-xg4lf If they complain replace them, same as we have done everytime before and intit he future get machines to take their jobs, import other labour or people wiling to do it for less they are expendable
People are starting to see why unions are an important piece of industrial rights for workers. There is a place for unions in the workplace, to stop the rot from corporations, ceos and directors and managers that believe the workers are just numbers. Without workers the company is nothing. Management has to start realising, just because they have positions in management doesn’t give them the right to treat workers like they are nothings. The old saying of you don’t like it there’s the gate, is a sign of poor people management.
That is Aldi's entire business model to compete though... more volume, less help - and it isn't even anywhere near the scale of some of the DC's and national warehouses / HQ's.
@@currymanmrkerryking I worked there 6 Years & That’s exactly what’s it like.. The amount that has to be achieved in the same time frame increases every year. And the level of Micromanaging is ridiculous! It’s not a happy environment to work in!
KPI - Key Performance Indicators ... This isn't new and unfortunately it has been happening for decades ... Major distribution centres have been implementing these measures to increase revenue and reduce down time ... Basic standards in this day and age ... But ... it places unnecessary pressure and stress on regular workers creating an expectation that is unsustainable, this creates low retention rates which ultimately forces workers to leave due to high expectations with little to no incentive to stay.
I'm a data person. I love data, analytics and efficiency, and I can't stand waste. Data provides multitudes of speedier insights into whatever it's looking at, and can easily be used positively as a holistic resource. It should always be completely transparent and available to workers, within sensible security parameters. I also totally support standing up for your rights, but wouldn't enjoy empty shelves either. How about some data on the higher ups too? Food for thought. Cheers.
This is so sad! The commitment and loyalty Woolworths has shown to Australia and their customers is without question! True they may have destroyed all of the corner stores and small businesses by undercutting them by buying bulk and importing inferior foreign products to destroy Australian industries, they had to! How else could they manipulate the food industry and control lifes necessity to EAT? They may stand against Australia Day but that doesn't prove they have gone woke and lack loyalty and integrity!!! So what if they offer no customer service and removed checkouts so customers have to serve themselves! They are maximising profits by minimising jobs for teens but these steps were only taken to ensure billions of dollars in profits! Profit over peasants is their moto! As a matter of fact I'd like to see these corporate scumbags FO out of our country!
@JustEnjoyLife88 yes but not intrusively. Their performance is measured against targets and expectations are set. Training is provided but if performance is consistently below standards, they are let go.
I remember when I worked for woolworths home delivery, we had black berries in the truck so they knew our locations at all times 😅 I ripped it out and told the company I never had one in my trick 😂😊
Woolies and Coles: connive their way into being the standard duopoly of our communities then whine like stuck pigs that their staff aren't keeping up with the workload. Let the market out of the corner if its so hard to keep there.
Why doesn't the Woolworths CEO livestreams every second they are at work so everyone can see what they do.
because their office is likely empty ~95% of the time as they don't ever need to be there except for meetings - which can all be done remotely with better systems....
How about tracking the CEOs work to see how they earn their massive salaries and bonuses?
That would just show up the ineptitude of management, not gonna happen
@@jandrews6254 film them brainstorming wokeness.
Exactly.
F Woolworths. Tracking workers all day is dystopian. Humans aren’t not machines.
This makes productivity worse, since it will give the workers stress.
There should be a balance between controlling and freedom, because good lord this sounds like a nightmare.
Then get more machines and less humans
When your competition for a job is a robot, you won't have alot of choice but to work like one.
@@zadoww As it should be part of evolution
But they want full pay right
As someone who worked in warehouses for years, the strikers are doing the right thing in relation to being tracked every minute of their shift. No one can work 100% for 100% of the time especially in a physically demanding job. That results in burnout.
Management certainly won't be putting in 100% daily
If they aren't working 100% of the time should their pay be reduced?
They never do!!!!! I see it all the time. Do the bare minimum!!!!
It's dangerous.
So therefor as an employer I don’t have to pay you fully for 100% of your shift right?
This needs to be stopped. Everyone needs to boycott Woolworths
@@msvulcanspock Labourers need to know their place in life..
Yes for sure
Stopped going to Woolworths years ago. For many other reasons on conduct.
It probably happens with Coles too though.
@@ElectroBlender its everywhere
Bet this technology isn’t being rolled out for Woolworths management 😒
Most likely, rules for thee; not for me…
Like how politicians weren't forced to be jabbed
@yeshua1st and if they did get jabbed in front of an audience it was probably water.
@@westernsellers9148 I’ve seen videos where it’s those prop syringes where the needle is like a plastic rod & it goes up into the syringe when you use it.
In Germany it’s illegal to track work performance electronically and rightly so
thanks for this info, I didn't know this.
tell them so they can go in Germany to work there😂
Such an uninformed view you hold @@iskoduwagoso448
Europe does very well on privacy in general. Especially compared to Australia
I wish that we stuck to our principles and followed in your direction instead of being more and more of a cheap American knock off wannabe.
I miss the Australia we used to be.
Hold the line people. You're doing it for all of us... If you don't stop it we'll all have this
Its coming for us anyway. This is to test the waters. They will retry and remarket it. Keeping pushing it until it becomes normal.
You'll have this. Read the Bible.
@@carmenvljn Jesus Christ
@@carmenvljn This a reference to the beast system & people needing the mark of the beast to do everyday things?
This just plays into the hands of the globalists agenda.. replace humans either machines/robots/AI.
Bring back the little family corner shops. They were more sociable.
many were thieves
@@lukeforks9134 Fake news
@@lukeforks9134 All Woollies you mean
@@libatalklieb5793 it was a better world with better burgers
@@lukeforks9134 it's called private business. Try it and see how much you make.
Corporate greed is corporate greed, no matter how you package it, but when you try to make humans work like robots with no regulars for their well being, then it's gone way too far
Well done unions, this needs to be stopped before it becomes the standard
I agree well done
Small minds always blame unions
That’s why big business love conservatards
@@josecamara9517
Big business love people like you
How dare an employee put in performance management for people they’re paying to do a job haha
@@IssaMeZane
When work conditions are unsafe, unions step in.
Big business love people who say ‘come on staff, be grateful you have a job. Don’t complain’.
Work hard hats were once not compulsory. There was once no paid holiday leave.
Unions stop being workers from being walked on and they’ll do it in a split second if they get the chance
Commenters who immediately take the businesses side, are useful tools for big business.
Woolworths were recently requiring their workers to work in their steel roof factories that were over 35 degrees.
I support the workers
So do i
I used to work for another big Supermarket chain (the c word) for 18 years. They treat you worse and worse and finally replace you with automation. No talking, keep working and no living. Guess what? We live half our lives at work but aren't treated like human beings. Good on you Woolies staff alot of aussie workers know what your going through. ❤ We'll be ok keep striking!
I support the workers 100%
Well done The Project on doing some actual journalism. Finally we actually hear why they are striking.
They’re striking because they don’t want personal responsibility
@@michaelfreedman4161 Such a futurist
@@michaelfreedman4161 Pro facial recognition technology as well right?
Unions sticking together that's why?
Look at their biased coverage during the plan-demic and USA elections!
Totally different 'journalism'???
Stay strong Woolies workers, your fight is also our fight.
The fight to be paid to be lazy
@@michaelfreedman4161 That position is taken by management and the CEO.
@@michaelfreedman4161Can you fit a tree trunk up there yet? Sounds like you do a lot of meat riding for big business 😂
@@michaelfreedman4161sounds like self projection 😂😂
Good on the workers for standing up to them. Woolies are nothing without them
Australian should boycott Woolworths.
Do it then. Don’t talk about it.
Not just Woolies; time to boycott all the oligopolies that run Australia: Coles/Woolies; Telstra/Optus/VodaFone; ANZ/NAB/CommBank/Westpac etc.
@@EnjoyEveryMoment88 - some of us don't have a choice due to Woolworths land banking, which ensures that they're the only supermarket nearby. I have to drive half an hour to reach Coles or Aldi.
Coles, too, and any company that puts profit above staff safety & wellbeing. Too many companies are under paying staff and setting unreasonable targets. Staff just get burnt out to meet profits then replaced by a new bunch of indentured slaves.
If Amazon is your inspiration then id suggest literally anyone or anything else.
They are a repulsive concept and company.
agreed, amazon had to automate heavily to even function because of their miserable practice, woolies is too inept to automate that much but still greedy enough to screw everyone
I worked in the Wearhouse. As a female I was still expected to move as fast as a man.
We could not pause the pick rate tracker to go to toilet so when you went it dropped your pick rate.
Some days and weeks I did overtime yet I was still expected to pick at 100 percent every day even at the end of a overtime week.
Lifting over 6000 kilos a day in an 8 hour shift for 8 hours a day.
I ended up having low iron and my pick rate went down to 50 percent, I had an iron infusion.
They did not even take this into consideration and I was fired.
People are having multiple injuries trying to keep up with a completely unsafe performance no job or dollar is worth injuring yourself for life.
😢 shocking 😭 hope you get interviews to tell your story 😞
So you wanted to be payed as a man but do half as much hmm
Thats awful. I hope you are in a better place now 🌷
@@oilpond🤮🤮🤮 people with your mindset are part of the problem!!! Develop some effing empathy!
Just go back to the comfy chair in the office and complain about cold A/C
I’m a woollies shopper, and I think good on the workers. Don’t listen to the media, we are ok and can easily shop at Coles.
And our independent supermarkets, butchers and green grocers😊
and when we find out Coles have been doing exactly the same thing?
@@maniaq77 coles is likely closely watching to see if this has huge blowout or blowback to inform their 1-3 year plan or strategies. From my experience Woolworths has always been slightly ahead of coles with developments - Woolies had the delivery by independent contractors a long time ago and only in recent years gone with a completely nested independent entity with their driver mobile platform years overdue when it was touted for initial development and deployment.
Coles is just as bad. If this is past coles will do the same. you do realize they are both owned by the same corporation.????.
Screw coles
The lack of empathy is disgusting. Companies make record profits whilst the employees are pushed to their limits. If we don't find empathy soon we will end up with slavery again. All I hear is excuses and rich folk just want their stuff.
We still are slaves, it’s just that the slave masters got clever.
Why waste their money housing & feeding the slaves, when the slaves can do it themselves?
Better yet, give the slaves options on the job they want, so that way they feel in control of their lives.
“Is a slave really a slave, if the slave doesn’t know they’re a slave?” This statement would pretty much sum this up.
Also if you can use hire/rent interchangeably, like you can hire or rent a car, wouldn’t that apply to humans?
Hire/rent a human; just hiring sounds nicer than renting to the people being hired/rented.
This is Amazon warehouse technology, been using it there for decades. The fact it wasn't banned 10+ years ago shows what future the government wants for us.
As a former woolies warehouse worker at their DC in Perth, i only lasted 3 days before i quit. When i applied i didnt know how ridiculously they track and monitor your productivity from first minute of the shift. Felt like a slave. They put pressure on workers to achieve high targets daily. I couldnt believe some people have been there for years. There are so many other better warehouse jobs out there that treat you like a person. E.g Auspost.
aupost treat you like a person😂😂😂 good for you, but not here in sydney😂😂😂
@@iskoduwagoso448 haha really? I worked at Auspost warehouses in Perth for some years between 2012 and 2021. it was a chill job. zero stress. Plenty of old long-serving warehouse workers/mail officers still working there now.
Have to disagree with auspost treating their workers right…
Don't be bludge and you'll be fine
Im so proud of the workers, not an inconvenience at all. This is important.
Shame on Woolworths, paying for legal action, rather than paying their workers and treating them like humans.
Yes - I am soo proud of you too! I’m happy to put my extra food money to a go fund me for the workers to strike for longer!
Other well known Australian companies are already doing equivalents of this tracking - but only to the staff on the bottom on the lowest pays who already are the hardest workers in the companies. The management and CEO etc for some reason don't lead by example.
Exactly I sorta think of like your boss is your king if your king his willing to Goto battle are you really ?
Rules for thee, not for me sadly
There should be a law in Australia banning the use of electronic monitoring...👨💻
Glad you are striking!! It’s disgusting that they are not just tracking & spying on staff, but customers! They have cameras watching every customer keying in their bank card PIN numbers. It’s super CREEPY!! Especially that they want to normalise this stalking of staff & customers. It’s not acceptable EVER!
Plus your striking may actually make my diet work…! :) Thank you for striking Xx
Just another reason I don’t shop at woolworths. Their greed at profits before anything else is disgusting. First they decided not to celebrate Australia Day. Now they’re pushing everyone so hard they’re unsafe at work. Boycott them now.
If it becomes UNSAFE at work, bring "Workcover" in, and THEY will sort Management out. There will probably be big Fines involved.
@@scottcarr3264 rather, laws need to be put in place like Germany, where it's illegal to monitor workers' performance electronically, as a previous comment mentioned
@@scottcarr3264explain how it is unsafe?
@@EnjoyEveryMoment88have you ever heard of human factors at work? Being pushed for 100% productivity leads to more accidents in the workplace. My partner learnt this from working in the RAF as an aircraft tech (in the UK). People make more mistakes when they're tired which can lead to fatal accidents - especially in warehouses. Think back to sweatshops in the Victorian times.
Hold the line workers
make a living not a killing. Goodbye Woolworth. Wake up People .start talking with your wallet.
This couldn't happen to a more deserving company, I hope they go under. Coles and woolworths have been ripping off their customers and their suppliers for years. They also buy out land in surrounding areas way above asking price to prevent family owned and smaller business from opening up. My ex worked for them for a decade, ended up with a permanent back injury from being told to split the load by herself while on nightfall and yelled at by the manager when it wasn't done fast enough. Screw em.. shop at the little guys and markets
It's great to see these people showing a bit of spirit.
I Salute you COURAGEOUS people on the picket line . Thank you for giving this situation a reality check . In support of the Workers ,
I am NEVER shopping / spending one single cent at woolworrths unless / until the workers are RESPECTED !
All Woolworths and Coles workers need pay rises. Most can't even afford where they work. tracking is a form of bullying.
That's their end game. They pushing people to NOT want to work for them so they have an excuse to replace them with robots/drones.
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ALL new warehouses are being fully automated, using robotics and AI technology.
These workers are paid above award wages and will soon be redundant.
@@multioptionedtotally agree with this!
Automation is coming. Hold onto your butts. In 10 years these jobs won't exist
They only way you ever get a seat at the table is via your union! The only reason you have a canteen, clean toilets, HR, Health & Safety is because of past union negotiations. Teach your children well! 🙏
Sooooo true! We can't get complacent and forget that these things were fought for and are not to be taken for granted.
I sopport the workers
I applaud these poor workers stand your ground as long as it takes!!!
Thank god for unions, supporting their members, as employers won't
💯 support the "human" worker's. It may be the Woolworths workers today but if they are not supported it will spread across the work context in every sector. But not to management, management will be exempt itself from being subjected to the same expectations. They already do!
We shouldn't support toxic work places.
Well done, for standing up to what most people would call, abusive behaviour.
Even though the family owned supermarket next to Woolies at my local is more expensive , I still shop there even though I’m a pensioner. I refuse to shop at Woolies. Can’t stand their cameras everywhere and supporting that fraudulent ceo and all those greedy shareholders.. stuff that
Why is your local independent price gouging you? And why are you supporting it?
Support the workers
We the people stand by the woolies staff
Heading towards Tracking people & listening to workers, next comes Digital ID & Face Recondition Surveillance, next they will track & decide what you buy & sell.
And how much money you can/can't spend.
They been doing since 2000. It's just now people are finding out. As is become everyday use.
Digital identity already passed
Bunnings are being investigated for facial recognition now.
I've worked many jobs with digital kids. All modern forklift warehousing jobs to start.
Pick, pack and deliver with headset tracking, voice print, digital id to use toilets and all time and movement tracked. The Reject shop distribution centre was my first. 13 years ago.
More live to work instead of work to live. Constantly being watched and monitored to make sure you are going flat out.
Many of my factory customers over the past few years have gone full automation. 100 staff down to a dozen monitors and a crew of fitters and turners.
Competition for the big yearly profits will never consider the workers.
They already do with the everyday rewards card. They give you a small discount for your data
I worked in a huge Unilever DC that did bulk product to all the major chains. It was a new warehouse when I started and I couldn't help but think to myself. Why use people and not robots?
As a society we should be trying to make life better for all. There are many jobs in the DC's that should be fully automated. There's no reason to use people when they don't have to get off the forklift all day.
These jobs are mindless and soul destroying. At this job the manager didn't want people so much as talking to each other while on the floor. He would of loved to have the tracking technology.
We are not robots, and being treated like one is a real problem
Its a shame that $50 million dollars will be put onto the customers rather than being absorbed by the CEOs multi-billion dollar income
They dont have multi billion dollar income lol
Fully support the workers, walk away know your worth. These big greedy companies/ corporations need you more than you need them.
I say boycott these Corporations!! Seriously over this spying and cameras monitoring everything we all do!! Tracking your workers is just pathetic!!
This is how much Woolworths cares about its employees.
I worked for Woolworths and was hit by a car at work, resulting in a permanent chronic pain injury. They sacked me by email with immediate effect based on a medical report they commissioned and refused to provide me with a copy.
Two weeks later, they emailed, accusing me of failing to attend a meeting to discuss my employment future despite never requesting any meeting.
Obviously, the regional manager never gave it a second thought after firing me.
With that attitude they might want to watch disgruntled peeps exiting viaxentry gates with full shopping trolley's 😂
Did you sue them, they should compensate you for this
@Linkavich14 I sued the drivers greenslip
There needs to be more news coverage on this topic. Woolworths have not learned or changed in the past decade. Expecting 100% productivity from their staff is impossible. If they had consulted experts on the anatomy of the human body, they would know physical productivity can fluctuate. Their company culture is rotten to the core. Misusing AI is a breach of AI's fundamentals in ethics and principles "do not cause harm' on the use of AI - and Woolworths have done just that!
Stop bludging at work
We live in a society where profit is the primary focus of a business, so I'm not sure why people are surprised by this. As long as the business model stays the same there will be more to come.
People need to unite & protest more, the people actually hold all the power , they just dont know it.
Minimum wage must increase & CEO salaries must go down.
its systematic well known abuse in retail
I won’t be shopping at Woolworths until this is addressed.
Also, I know people who have worked for woolies in distribution centres for decades. They build a new distribution centre and close the old one, creating new EBA agreements. They offer them a new role of employment and reduce their salary under the new agreement, they can take the new underpaid salary or take a payout. This is extremely common and this is a big problem, this forces experienced staff to find alternative employment leaving a huge gap of experienced seasoned workers leaving the operation exposed and being replaced by an inexperienced overwhelmed work force. Retention is important and paying staff what they are worth is the key to operational excellence, the people and culture is indeed the most valuable. Not CEO package deals 💭
They get rid of staff who have been there for years because they know their rights and they know how conditions and safety have dropped in the name of profits. It seems to be happening in every sector to frontline or lower paid staff, while CEOs and upper management get huge bonuses for cutting costs. CEIs personally benefit financially by wirking their staff into exhaustion.
@@maursyf16 thats true
@@maursyf16 thats true ☝🏽
@@maursyf16 thats true
When the CEO and Directors are comfortable with having their EVERY moment watched, recorded and performance assessed, it will be a little fairer.
Anyone who has had police follow behind them while driving will notice they are so frightened of making a mistake they start making way more mistakes than they would ever make without that level of scrutiny.
Yeah that's happens when I'm 8 cans deep on my ps
you LET them follow you?
i just pull over. they can join me, or continue on. either way, i dont LET them follow me.
except in those very few places one cant legally stop...
@@paradiselost9946 you let them force you off the road? I'm to busy getting to my destination LoL.
@@dino9071 five seconds... theyre gone. big deal.
and once gone, that few seconds is quickly made up for...
@@paradiselost9946 no they follow the traffic on purpose looking for people like you acting suspicious do you even have a licence no one reading this will believe that you do LoL.
We need that sort of technology for politicians and other government workers
This is why I quit Woolworths/ Primary Connect
Ridiculous output requirements
Woolies should be getting sued for price gouging anyway
And Coles.
All the big warehouses do this in some form, Toll are especially notorious for treating workers like robots. Absolute mind rotting work pick/pack - forky work.
Hold the line people, glad they have stood up for themselves
Following Amazon's initiative
This is dystopian, as if the idea was taken from an episode of Black Mirror! We are human, not robots!!!
I'd rather support independent stores, screw woolworths.
I’ll gladly eat a can of baked beans for Christmas lunch for these workers to stand their ground !
We stand with the workers.. Woollies has no right to surveil staff like they’re robots.
Good on them. Tracking is inhumane
Now there spying on the customers too,we should act
And get rid of self-check-out while you're at it.
Any one that uses self-check-out is TOTALLY supporting and enabling corporate greed towards Full automation (i.e ; workers getting screwed) .
People need to boycott Woolworths for a few days in support and see how they go!
only a few days?
They can afford it they spent $400M rebranding countdown to Woolworths…… obviously they have money to burn
After the strike, groceries are going up again! They rip up prices!!
Funny how the CEO and Senior Management are paid well above what they are worth. I am happy to suffer a bit of pain on behalf of the workers getting decent conditions, and decent pay.
Greedy woolworths should respect all there workers with dignity,,respect and honour. Woolworth should pay all their workers more as their staff demand a pay rise.
Track the managers , the CEOs and every other useless worker trying to implement this. Rediculous behaviour thats not being regulated and it will continue if their pockets are filled and ours arent.
@outlawGFXaus My understanding is that it's normal for Store Manager level to work additional unpaid hours every week. It's probably not openly demanded - but IMPLIED. In exchange for their seniority and higher salaries. As you know, there are so many variables in a supermarket business. It's very often the managers who cover when staff are absent, store incidents delay restocking, accidents and emergencies, theft and break-ins etc. That can add up to $000s unpaid over years of loyal service.
Their supermarket employees should strike as well.
Almost 3yrs ago now I resigned after 12yrs with Woolworths. A year prior I had gone to store management to report that years of continual staffing cuts had left us chronically understaffed and literally unable to complete the daily tasks of the job, nor uphold the required standards... and I'm talking tasks including the essential cleaning of food preparation areas and equipment in fresh food departments (think cured meats, raw chicken, and seafood, as well as how dangerous poor sanitary practices can be with such items). I had to endure a whole heap of gaslighting, but after more than 2hrs of debate over three meetings across four weeks, after me catching them in their lies and pointing out their inconsistencies and hypocrisy, I finally got them to admit that I was right, we were chronically understaffed. They then proceeded to tell me, however, that they wouldn't take my concerns and feedback up the chain of command because to do so would be to risk their own jobs. That's the corporate culture at Woolworths - don't rock the boat lest you might fall out. They did tell me that they'd work with me, my colleagues, and our department manager to improve things together..... that never happened and I left 12 months later, a broken man after what felt like years of abuse.
If you've not experienced understaffing or monitoring like these warehouse workers that forces you to work harder than you can sustain over the long-term you might not understand just how debilitating and demoralising it can be. I finally left Woolworths having suffered chronic stress, leading to insomnia, depression, total burnout, and having flunked out of university as a consequence. Some 3yrs on and I still haven't recovered. I don't sleep well, I'm still battling depression, I haven't returned to uni, and I have barely worked over this period. This type of workplace stress isn't productive for anyone in the long run..... and it's entirely inhumane.
Thank you for sharing your story and raising awareness. I had no idea that they were such a dodgy employer and that they put customers at potential risk due to inadequate cleaning because of understaffing.
Can confirm and then some…. Been there over 20 years. And have sadly watched standards and practices erode beyond belief. All due to increased pressure, under-staffing and mistreatment of the workforce that remains.
Working in a supermarket shouldn’t be as stressful and soul crushing as it is…. But here we are. I’m glad you got out brother.🙏🏻
Sounds like a similair treatment/experience my best friend recently went through. Spoke up about it, upset upper management and ended up being let got/managed out as a result.
I used to work in Woolies corporate-not a good employer either. They really exploit their employees to the limit. Not worth my time and energy
Worked at Coles for 9 years. 3 of those years under a particularly nasty store manager was the most stressful 3 years of my working life. More stressful than my current Software Engineering job.
As a woolworths shareholder, I demand the immediate resignation of all involved with deciding to implement such an invasion of human rights.
Woolworths seems too hard to work for, too stressful to work for. They need to change. They need to Care for their workers.
This is dystopian as.
If the executives want tracking technology on employees, the same tech should be applied to all executives, and made available to everyone in the company to view.
Pay your workers. I can shop elsewhere for now
Fonterra in New Zealand are doing the same thing to their truck drivers. Filming the driver 24/7 in the trucks
Good on them - it surprises me that this is coming as a shock to people commenting. Amazon has been tracking warehouse staff this way for years. Corporates track employees' keyboard and mouse clicks. I mean, Woolies and Coles already have all of us shoppers working for them - scanning our own shopping, and donating our purchasing data...
When I was working in an office involved with a keyboard I had my performance for the day printed out as a report at the end of the day showing how many keystrokes I was making and that to me was not an issue because I was doing my fair share of work. That was way back in the 1990s. IMO I feel as if maybe in this day and age big companies may be gearing towards replacing people with yes I am going to say it ROBOTS.
Can anyone come to a realization that Australian grocery rerailers dont care less about anything but profits. They use tracking technology not only on staff but also customers and suppliers. Powerful foreign entities want this, so be it.
Its a business not a charity profit is the most important part.
@@OgglyGoogly this is the worst kind of disingenuous counter logical opposite. capitalism is by its very nature cannibalistic and in raw form deliberately omits ethics and morals, but entities dont exist - these are intangible, someone, somewhere is making a choice and ironically, duty of care is something the average Australian and worker globally can't or don't use that always gets forgotten when it suits the suits.
@@MP-xg4lf If they complain replace them, same as we have done everytime before and intit he future get machines to take their jobs, import other labour or people wiling to do it for less they are expendable
@@OgglyGoogly Yeah we know it's a business but they make enough $$$$. C'mon.
People are starting to see why unions are an important piece of industrial rights for workers. There is a place for unions in the workplace, to stop the rot from corporations, ceos and directors and managers that believe the workers are just numbers. Without workers the company is nothing. Management has to start realising, just because they have positions in management doesn’t give them the right to treat workers like they are nothings. The old saying of you don’t like it there’s the gate, is a sign of poor people management.
Working At Aldi was exactly the Same .. They will never admit to it, But ‘Extraordinary Efficiency Is Priority over all, even Staff well being!
That is Aldi's entire business model to compete though... more volume, less help - and it isn't even anywhere near the scale of some of the DC's and national warehouses / HQ's.
I’ve got to say that Aldi’s ALWAYS seem to be understaffed and the workers seem very unhappy. At least that’s how my local Aldi seems to be.
@@currymanmrkerryking I worked there 6 Years & That’s exactly what’s it like.. The amount that has to be achieved in the same time frame increases every year. And the level of Micromanaging is ridiculous! It’s not a happy environment to work in!
It will become the norm and everyone will tolerate it. Just give it a generation. Hi from N.Z
KPI - Key Performance Indicators ... This isn't new and unfortunately it has been happening for decades ... Major distribution centres have been implementing these measures to increase revenue and reduce down time ... Basic standards in this day and age ... But ... it places unnecessary pressure and stress on regular workers creating an expectation that is unsustainable, this creates low retention rates which ultimately forces workers to leave due to high expectations with little to no incentive to stay.
Well said….i work in pharmacy it’s getting worse the last 5 years….
They are employees, not slaves. They don't own the people who work for them. Disgusting behaviour
I'm a data person. I love data, analytics and efficiency, and I can't stand waste. Data provides multitudes of speedier insights into whatever it's looking at, and can easily be used positively as a holistic resource. It should always be completely transparent and available to workers, within sensible security parameters. I also totally support standing up for your rights, but wouldn't enjoy empty shelves either. How about some data on the higher ups too? Food for thought. Cheers.
I bet Bunnings is doing the same. Next time you are there check out their head sets.
This is so sad! The commitment and loyalty Woolworths has shown to Australia and their customers is without question! True they may have destroyed all of the corner stores and small businesses by undercutting them by buying bulk and importing inferior foreign products to destroy Australian industries, they had to! How else could they manipulate the food industry and control lifes necessity to EAT? They may stand against Australia Day but that doesn't prove they have gone woke and lack loyalty and integrity!!! So what if they offer no customer service and removed checkouts so customers have to serve themselves! They are maximising profits by minimising jobs for teens but these steps were only taken to ensure billions of dollars in profits! Profit over peasants is their moto! As a matter of fact I'd like to see these corporate scumbags FO out of our country!
As a senior executive, tracking workers is not acceptable.
Do you track performance of your employees?
@JustEnjoyLife88 yes but not intrusively. Their performance is measured against targets and expectations are set. Training is provided but if performance is consistently below standards, they are let go.
Greed will enslave us all
I remember when I worked for woolworths home delivery, we had black berries in the truck so they knew our locations at all times 😅 I ripped it out and told the company I never had one in my trick 😂😊
@SamuelSlade-uy6cl Love your past act of resistance. Sadly, you wouldn't get away with it today.
Yet no one said anything when customers were tracked by thousands of cameras from every possible angle by woolies.
Stop shopping at coles and woolies. Awful companies
Woolies and Coles: connive their way into being the standard duopoly of our communities then whine like stuck pigs that their staff aren't keeping up with the workload. Let the market out of the corner if its so hard to keep there.