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8 July 2020
Jobcentre reopening: only union struggle will put safety first
Jobcentres have become the latest battleground between workers' desire to work in safety and employers' desire to reopen services, ready or not.
27 April 2020
Civil servants in Paisley protest after Covid outbreak
On 24 April, civil servants at Paisley Jobcentre held an outdoors union meeting following an outbreak of Covid-19 in their office
17 April 2019
Real life on Universal Credit: "As soon as I get billed for my electric, I'm finished"
Hi. I'm Luke. I live alone and I'm on Universal Credit.
25 October 2017
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors
18 October 2017
Powerful picture of the Port Talbot steel workers' struggle
Theatre: We're Still Here: Under the threat of closure, the steel workers - but not the pensioners - were forced to vote for one of two options, either of which meant a cut in pensions. 'We're Still Here' dramatises the effect of this threat on the workers.
23 August 2017
PCS: strikes to defend jobcentres
More and more jobcentres are taking action against DWP office closures
26 July 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including a job centre walkout in Sheffield and the UCU banned from a meeting in Teesside.
16 June 2017
Jobcentre strike grows in second round of action
Members of the PCS have been striking to save the Eastern Avenue Job Centre
31 May 2017
Strike action to save Sheffield Jobcentre
Staff at the Eastern Avenue Jobcentre are striking to save their jobs and continue providing the service in one of the poorest areas of Sheffield
5 April 2017
Financial hardship facing millions of cancer sufferers
Finding out one has cancer is worrying enough. Treatment is often an ordeal. Facing financial hardship and insecurity as a result adds enormously to the anxiety many experience.
4 April 2017
Union day of action slams benefit sanctions
Benefit sanctions punish people for being unemployed. That's why Unite Community - a trade union section for unemployed people - organised a national day of action against benefit sanctions on 30 March
28 February 2017
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced a proposed large-scale reduction of its office estate by 20%, including Jobcentres and back-of-house offices with a further reduction of 10% by office co-location.
15 February 2017
PCS union pledges to fight Jobcentre job losses
Reports from PCS campaigning in Llanelli and Sheffield
25 July 2016
Sanctioned - a victim of government callousness
A job seeker sent the following account to the Socialist of his recent experience of having his benefits withdrawn.
30 March 2016
Featured letter: 'Universal Jobmatch' con: 'Rabbit trail' of recurring, non-existent job ads
'Universal Jobmatch' is a website jobseekers are encouraged to use to find work
2 September 2015
Made-up benefit sanction quotes: Tory lies no surprise to us
Tory work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been caught out totally making up quotes. Imaginary people subject to welfare sanctions - punishment by cutting benefits - say it actually helped them.
3 June 2015
How the unemployed are targeted with sanctions
A Jobseeker's Allowance claimant describes how she was subjected to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) draconian sanctions regime
1 April 2015
End punitive benefit sanctions now!
Darren, a Jobseeker's Allowance claimant from Leicester, has been sanctioned, without proper justification, following a new DWP pilot scheme involving daily signing at a Jobcentre. Darren explains what happened
5 March 2014
Fight the government's vicious sanctions regime
Experiencing the daily grind of poverty and fruitless job searches when you're out of work is very demoralising. But the Con-Dems go the extra mile
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