Support Remploy Workers!
greenman | 22.05.2007 19:15 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London
Following the announcement that 43 Remploy factories are to be closed, this is a message from the Remploy workers organised in the GMB -
Show your disgust for the Remploy Closure Plans demonstrate with us at the TUC disability conference from 10-00am on Wednesday 23rd of May - TUC,
Great Russell Street, London.
The social model of disability is supposed to be about empowering disabled people and them having a say. It is disgusting that various charities and voluntary organisations are backing this move without referring to the Remploy workers themselves or their unions. Another example of idealistic socially liberal/progressive models being used to justify neo-liberal cuts and draconian labour market discipline.
Is Remploy a brilliant employer? No. Is being pushed into the "new-improved" welfare arrangements or into inferior employment better? Certainly not. A struggle to improve Remploy can only occur if you still work for them!
Show your solidarity with the Remploy workers.
Show your disgust for the Remploy Closure Plans demonstrate with us at the TUC disability conference from 10-00am on Wednesday 23rd of May - TUC,
Great Russell Street, London.
The social model of disability is supposed to be about empowering disabled people and them having a say. It is disgusting that various charities and voluntary organisations are backing this move without referring to the Remploy workers themselves or their unions. Another example of idealistic socially liberal/progressive models being used to justify neo-liberal cuts and draconian labour market discipline.
Is Remploy a brilliant employer? No. Is being pushed into the "new-improved" welfare arrangements or into inferior employment better? Certainly not. A struggle to improve Remploy can only occur if you still work for them!
Show your solidarity with the Remploy workers.
greenman
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