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Take action against companies profiting from workfare!

boycottworkfare | 06.10.2011 10:12 | Workfare | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Cambridge | South Coast

1pm, Wed 19th October 2011 outside the annual Welfare to Work Conference at the Business Design Centre, Upper Street, Islington, N1 0HQ

This year’s Welfare to Work Conference will bring together politicians and private companies making millions from the welfare to work industry. The agenda reads like a who’s who of welfare abolition.

We’re not fooled by “Welfare to Work”: It means people forced to do unpaid work for multi-million pound companies such as Asda and Poundland. People risk losing the meagre £67 a week Jobseeker’s Allowance if they do not work for such companies without pay.

Conference speakers will include James Purnell, who introduced the idea of workfare under Labour, and the Tory peer Lord Freud, multi millionaire ex-banker and self styled ‘welfare expert’. This is a convention for those promoting the idea of an unpaid workforce, whilst making millions from it.

Join us as we make sure the conference doesn’t go as smoothly as planned!

 http://www.boycottworkfare.org/

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- Homepage: http://www.boycottworkfare.org/


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There can be some benefits

12.10.2011 17:13

I agree that when unemployed people are compelled by the Job Centre to take up unpaid work with no guarantee of a paid job at the end of the placement it's unfair and unjust.
However such placements arn't all bad. I work for a mental health charity that helps people with mental health problems get back into work, training or education and we were partnered with the Marks and Spencer's "Marks and Starts" programme.
Some of our clients took up work placement's at M&S and two of them have ended up getting full time paid jobs there.
To say all such placements are bad is off the mark.

Dan Factor


Sign pledge

12.10.2011 23:55

So who/what is your mental health charity called Dan & will you & your charity be signing up to the Boycott Workfare pledge?

Boycotter


How many

13.10.2011 00:01

Dan Factor, how many people took up work placements with M&S from the 2 that were offered jobs and what were the jobs offered?

cyril


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