The Road To Social Justice
Following on from the post yesterday regarding potential community work schemes that could be investigation – ideally by an independent committee – I have a strong belief that we need to strengthen work experience schemes for jobseekers that would like to gain further experience or new experience in an area that they are interested in working in. I am a […]
Continue reading »I’m very torn on this issue. I feel that some degree of benefit reform is probably required. I also feel we do have to encourage work whilst remaining fair. However, ‘forced’ work schemes have traditionally not been very successful – in any sense of the word. I do genuinely think that work schemes for benefits claimants and the unemployed should […]
Continue reading »Workfare is, unfortunately, anything but fair. Workfare is a catch-all used to describe government sanctioned schemes that require benefit claimants to do unpaid work in return for their benefits – in many cases unpaid work for profit-making, private sector companies. The Tories say that Workfare is not compulsory – the reason they give is that if benefit claimants do not […]
Continue reading »The Tories are once again showing that no matter how much you say you are a party for “the hard working people of our country” that there actions show that they are anything but. Tory strike law proposals outlined immediately after winning their slim majority in Parliament are some of the most anti-worker proposals proposed for decades – and bearing in […]
Continue reading »Well there does get to be points when some Unions get a little bit annoyed at the Labour Party and vice versa. In recent times, during the ‘Miliband’ era, it’s not been unusual for Unite in particular to clash with Labour. There’s been a few spats since 2010 – most notable the candidate selection controversy in Falkirk in 2013. Then […]
Continue reading »The coalition, and in particular, the Tories, told us consistently that the way out of poverty was to work (conveniently ignoring the Working Poor class that they have created). They told us that their government was one that was going to look after and reward hard-working people. So what was the record of the last Tory government on ‘Hard-working people’? […]
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