Saturday 8 October 2011

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Workfare - compulsory work for benefits - is being rolled-out across the country. We call on public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and businesses being offered these placements as well as union branches to join others in signing a pledge to boycott the scheme.

Take action against companies profiting from workfare!

Posted: October 8th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

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!

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One Comment on “Take action against companies profiting from workfare!”

  1. 1 National Day of Action Against Atos Round Up « National Day of Protest Against Welfare & Housing Benefit Cuts said at 4:19 pm on October 1st, 2011:

    [...] protest is planned outside the Business Design Centre on 19th October when they will play host to the annual Welfare to Work [...]