Plotting and scheming for Welfare not Workfare
On 12 November, it became legal to force unemployed people to work for their benefits – to do 40-hour-weeks for under a third of the minimum wage. The Government’s Welfare Reform Act introduced ‘Work for your Benefit’ pilot schemes, which once completed can be rolled out without any further debate. It also attacked single parents [...]
How will the Welfare ‘Abolition’ Bill affect us?
1.30pm-5.30pm, Sun 22nd November
Navarino Mansions Community Hall, Dalston Lane (near Hackney Downs), E8 1LB
Free to attend – tea, coffee and snacks free too!
Wheelchair accessible. Childcare available – see below.
Single parent?
Unemployed?
Sick or disabled?
In temporary or insecure work?
Working for Jobcentre Plus?
If so, the Welfare Reform Bill will target you.
The government want to make us pay for their [...]
No To Welfare Abolition: The National Planning Meeting
Manchester University Students Union, Steve Biko Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR, rooms MR1 and MR2 (google map)
Saturday 14th November
Arrive 11.30am for 12 noon start. Finish 5.30pm.
The aims:
stop the implementation of the welfare reform (abolition) bill
build a network of solidarity between claimants
create links between unemployed workers and workers in the PCS
The day:
Share information
Plan a national [...]
Week of Action on the Welfare Abolition Bill March 7 – 15
London Coalition Against Poverty, Disabled People’s Direct Action Network and Feminist Fightback are calling on all groups concerned with the eroding of our welfare rights to take part in a week of action against the Welfare Reform Bill, renamed by us as the Welfare Abolition Bill.
As the government has bailed out the banks and rewarded [...]
DAN blocks Whitehall against Welfare Reform Act
Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd December, International Day of Disabled People 2008) at 2pm, activists from the UK Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) and London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP) blocked traffic both ways on Whitehall, directly outside Downing Street, for over 45 minutes in protest against the new Welfare Reform Act, which replaces Incapacity Benefit with [...]