Tag Archives: workfare
Workfare, welfare, and freedom of information
So long as the government’s workfare programmes were kept slightly blurred, it was easy for people otherwise of good will to support them. (Ideological cheap-work conservatives would support workfare all the more for understanding what it is, but genuine believers … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Disability, George Orwell, Poverty, Supermarkets
The outside agitator wants your biscuit
At a table somewhere in Hypothetical Stories, there’s Dolly from Tunbridge Wells, who reads the Daily Mail and works 35 hours a week for £7 an hour and an evening job on top of that just to get by. And … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Poverty, Supermarkets
Why I know workfare doesn’t work
Chris Grayling makes large claims for his workfare schemes: There is a work experience scheme, it’s voluntary. If you are a young person looking for work, the Job Centre Plus advisor will talk to you about which area you might … Continue reading
North Fort Street. 5.45pm. Police.
This evening about 5:45, on North Fort Street (about 200 meters from Ferry Road) I saw three police cars. Two on the corner by Fort House, one on the facing corner by Lapicide Place. And at least five police. They … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Education, Supermarkets
Workfare in Scotland: FOI denied
On Saturday 3rd March the Boycott Workfare campaign plans a national, UK-wide, day of action against workfare – and I had been wondering why no locale for a demo had yet been announced for Edinburgh or Glasgow, both of which … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Poverty, Scottish Culture, Supermarkets
Good show, Tesco. Good show, what?
I say: those lovely people at Tesco have realised that it is wrong to employ people for nothing, who are showing up to work not because they’ll get paid but because if they don’t they’ll lose their benefits. (Turns out … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Poverty, Supermarkets
You will work harder. Cameron is always right.
At the beginning of 2012, a young woman, Cait Reilly, stood up for human rights and natural justice as no one on the front bench of the Labour Party has done yet in this Parliament: she took the Department of … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Disability, Healthcare, Poverty, Scottish Politics
The ideology of workfare
On 9th February, Tesco in East Anglia posted a job on the DirectGov JobCentrePlus website, looking for someone on JSA to work the night shift. On 3rd March, there’s a National Day of Action against workfare. The basic details (should … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Poverty, Supermarkets
