What is workfare?
Posted: October 8th, 2011 | Author: editor | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: images | 1 Comment »These cartoons explain it quite well… (click on the images to make them larger)
Boycott Workfare is a UK-wide campaign to end forced unpaid work for people who receive welfare. Workfare profits the rich by providing free labour, whilst threatening the poor by taking away welfare rights if people refuse to work without a living wage. We are a grassroots campaign, formed in 2010 by people with experience of workfare and those concerned about its impact. We expose and take action against companies and organisations profiting from workfare; encourage organisations to pledge to boycott it; and actively inform people of their rights.
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The following organisations have signed up to the pledge
We the undersigned commit to refusing to participate in compulsory work-for-benefits placements. We want volunteering to remain just that!
- Unite Central London Branch – LE/524
- Hackney City Farm
- International Federation of Iraqi Refugees
- Shiny Ideas
- Unite LE/785 Branch, Community, Youth Workers and Not for Profit Sector
- Staff Shop (Unite), Friends of the Earth – England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Campaign Against Arms Trade
- Centre for Ethics and Politics at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London
- PCS East London DWP branch
- Unite Union Shop at the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture
- Shelter from the Storm
- PCS Euston
- Chinese Bookshop
- PCS DWP Wirral Branch
- UNITE Branch LE/460 (Ipswich)
- Labour Representation Committee
- Birmingham Trades Council
- GMB Sussex Branch
- IWW West Midlands
- Ipswich Trades Council
- Brent Trades Council
- Liverpool Against the Cuts
- Cardiff Trades Council
- The Goodship, Kilburn
- Unions 21
- Right to Work
- Education Activist Network
- Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union
- Red Stuff Shop, The Screaming Seagull Press Ltd
- IWW London General Membership Branch
- Haringey Unison Branch
- Wessex Solidarity
- Great Yarmouth and District Trade Union Council
- Tameside Unemployed Workers Alliance
- Tameside Trades Council
- Brighton Trades Council
- Brighton and Hove Unison
- Anti-slavery International
- Community and Youth Workers in Unite
- Salford City Unison
- Unison (Sussex Partnership)
- Norwich City Council
- Chau digital
- Black Triangle Campaign
- The Hope Project
- The Vintage Quarter, Salisbury
- Dorset health branch Unison
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole TUC
- Unison Healthcare branch, Southampton
- Lewisham People before Profit
- Art Against Cuts
- Precarious Workers Brigade
Please download the Union motion – boycott workfare to bring to your trade union branch and a leaflet to bring to meetings and events.
Contact us
Please contact us if your organisation or union branch will sign the above pledge, or for more information on the campaign.
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