Immigrant Workers Arrested at Olympic Site

The UK Borders Agency (UKBA) has arrested more than 90 people employed at the Olympic construction site between April and November this year.  23 of those workers have been forced to leave the country.  Profit is the priority for the private companies involved, at the expense of the rights of workers.
As the 2012 Olympic Games [...]

Hostel Residents’ Demands

Hackney Hostel Residents’ Group has developed demands at its meetings and through working groups, which have been presented to Diane Abbott MP. She is contacting the Mayor, Jules Pipe, and the head of housing in Hackney for a joint meeting.
Our problems, as Temporary Accommodation Residents of Hackney Council, are too big for MPs to avoid [...]

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 [...]