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Showing posts with label mwa. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2013

Christian charities face Christian protests over use of workfare labour

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Christian organisations including the Salvation Army and the YMCA are participating in “workfare” schemes, using workers who must work witho...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Welfare Wrongs and Human Rights: a summary [kittysjones]

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  A summary of discussion with Anne McGuire, Shadow Minister for disabled people. The Coalition is not a Government that recognise...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

#ESAendgame ~ Please lend your support to this campaign and share as widely as possible ~ Unite!

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SUE MARSH WRITES: Wednesday, 6 March 2013 ESA SOS – The Starting Gun In a few weeks, I’m going to arrange for some very significant ...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

WHY THE DWP-ATOS BROWN ENVELOPE CAN KILL: Broken Heart Death Syndrome

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  Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy The government, DWP and Atos surely KNOW about this condition. By placing sick and disabled individuals unde...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Charities using forced labour supplied by the DWP

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I would avoid giving anything to a charity which uses labour supplied free by the DWP. Nor would I buy from a charity shop which used forced...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Unum bragged about ‘driving government thinking’ on incapacity benefit reform

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An insurance company set to make huge financial gains from incapacity benefit (IB) reform bragged about “driving” the government towards tho...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

IDS: Shelf-stacking more important than geology

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Iain Duncan Smith: "Terry Leahy started his life stacking shelves" The work and pensions secretary has criticised ...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

JobCentre pressures firms to turn jobs into workfare

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Angus MP Mike Weir has demanded that the Prime Minister personally intervene and act on claims that some JobCentre managers are putting pres...
Monday, January 28, 2013

There’s No Pay At The Y-M-C-A!*

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“By all means, pay companies incentives to employ young people, but do not take advantage of the vulnerable by using them as free labour.” ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Salvation Army and #Workfare Controversy

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To be upfront, I didn’t know what the issue was with the government Workfare scheme. I’ve not really been interested in this until this morn...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

PCS Union: Workfare a stain on welfare state

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Standing up for the poor and vulnerable: Day Four at TUC Congress A vigorous defence of the welfare state was spearheaded by PCS to open ...