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18 April 2012
Time to fight the attacks on pay and working conditions: From workfare to Sunday trading hours, to shop closures and redundancies, issues affecting the retail sector have featured prominently in the national news over the last few months, writes an Usdaw member.
The Jarrow March for Jobs 2011 ends with a demonstration in London on 5 November , photo Sujeeth
11 April 2012
Living to work, not working to live
I went on the government's workfare scheme out of sheer desperation, having been unemployed for over two years. My dad took early retirement so I had to start bringing more money in, writes a supermarket worker.
21 March 2012
No to workfare - fight for a genuine alternative
Cait Reilly, one of the young people forced to work for free under the existing schemes is in the process of a judicial review of the government's workfare policies, writes Paul Callanan
7 March 2012
"Give us jobs NOT slave labour": On 3 March, Youth Fight for Jobs organised and took part in anti-workfare demos up and down the country
7 March 2012
Clegg receives anti-workfare message in Cardiff
Youth Fight for Jobs and Cardiff Trades Council demonstrated outside the Welsh Liberal Democrats spring conference on Saturday to oppose the government's workfare scheme
Workfare protest targets A4e, photo Socialist Party
7 March 2012
The welfare state is now a lucrative business - Emma Harrison's contract as A4e chief was worth around £200 million
1 March 2012
Compulsion in 'work experience' scheme dropped
In another nail in the coffin of workfare, the government has dropped threats to stop benefits if people pull out part way through their 'work experience'
1 March 2012
Following retreats by the government on its flagship ‘work experience’ schemes, YFJ has called a 'day of action' on Budget Day and is calling for trade unions and anti-workfare campaigns to jointly discuss organising a mass demo against slave labour in the summer
29 February 2012
Working class needs real political opposition to Con-Dem millionaires
Over the last week the Socialist Party has been hysterically attacked in the right-wing capitalist press for our opposition to slave labour workfare schemes
29 February 2012
McWorkfare - "Let's campaign until it's stopped completely"
On Monday protesters were at McDonald's in Sheffield to voice disgust at the Con-Dems' forced labour schemes. Also read on for reports from Leeds, Birmingham and Wakefield
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