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• Boycott Work Programme.
  It seems we have started a mini-revolution with thousands of people sticking up for their rights and

Ipswich Unemployed Action comments...

• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by Wayne green
  Am flabbegasted that the big work programme consist's of you going once a wk from minute you walk in to minute you walk out half hour latter you get no contact with a work programme provider apart from them making sure you sign their attendance book and thats only so they can get paid if sitting you in front of a computer half hour a week looking on web sites at jobs that dont change from one month or the next or looking at dwp site at jobs that are made up and never was a real paid job then god help us and the sum thing for nothing excuse me its what we have payed in to the system when we was working that we are getting paid with in fact we are paying our self's with our own money by rights, only people getting sum thing for nothing is the likes of tesco and the rest that take free labour and of course emma harrison and all the other work programme providers that are getting paid what for they dont give us any help to help us back into work so please drop the sum thing for nothing as its what we have paid in to system when we was working and only people to rob the tax payer is all the mp's who fiddled their exspenses and of couse emma and the other chums
• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by Noam Chomsky
  It is an imperative that you transform yourself from a consumer of the rich man’s bullshit, to a manufacturer of the people’s truth. – Noam Chomsky, <i>Manufacturing Consent</i>
• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by mrmrkrchrdson
  Regarding this letter, I'm no legal eagle - but do remember that in the McLibel case, the European Court of Human Rights criticised the UK for not adequately protecting individuals' rights to publicly criticise private companies, especially where the activities of the company affects people's lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_Case
• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by A4e Corruption
  In these recessionary times, we’re all very interested in unemployment. Newspapers and commentators pore over unemployment figures, whether they’re up or down and reflect on what this says about the state of our economy. But nobody seems to care much about the unemployed. Apart from Iain Duncan Smith, of course – or so he would have us believe. In a speech last May, in which he introduced his ideas for welfare reform, he announced, ‘We must be here to help improve people’s lives, not just park them on long-term benefits. Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy’ One of the proposals in IDS’s welfare reforms which are currently being pushed through parliament is to involve more private companies in getting the unemployed back to work, who will then be paid for their successes. It’s hardly an original idea – Jobcentre Plus already has contracts with hundreds of such organisations (‘training providers’ they’re called in a classic example of New Labour-speak ) whereby claimants of Jobseekers Allowance are forced to attend ‘employability training’, which often involves little more than them being sat in a room with some newspapers and the Internet for 5 hours a day (if you care to search the web, there are a fair few ranting forums and blogs devoted to these places). The providers have various targets, for getting people into work or onto work placements, and they are paid according to their results. This was the New Labour version, so one can only assume that the Tory version is going to be even more wedded to free market dogma. I worked in the employability sector for a while in the mid-noughties and have friends who still do. I can say fairly confidently that it is run by a bunch of cowboys. A4E, one of the government’s largest private contractors, was investigated by the DWP in 2009 for fraudulent practices, including falsifying employer signatures. It was brushed off by A4E as an aberration, but it is symptomatic of the way that many such companies are run; I know of many cases, from my own and others’ experiences, in which signatures have been forged, paperwork falsified and evidence faked in order for targets to be met and money to be claimed from the Job Centre. One such instance involved a bewildered client being asked to pose for a photograph standing by a photocopier, only to find out later that this was being used as evidence of an office work placement that she had never done. These organisations treat their unemployed clients with contempt. People are regularly put on unpaid work placement schemes, usually with unglamourous high street outfits like Iceland or Poundstretcher, sometimes with the vague promise of a job at the end but just as often not, and expected to be grateful. One man I knew, a 50 year old from Sri Lanka, began a 2 week placement as a shelf filler at a high street chain on the understanding he would be offered a job at the end. The period was extended to 4 weeks and then to 6 weeks, at the end of which he had sustained a bad back injury from the heavy lifting and the offer of a job was withdrawn. 6 weeks of slave labour for a crappy minimum wage supermarket job that never materialised and which gave him a bad, possibly long term, back injury. Is this the kind of aspiration that IDS wants to see more of?
• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by A4e Corruption
  In these recessionary times, we're all very interested in unemployment. Newspapers and commentators pore over unemployment figures, whether they're up or down and reflect on what this says about the state of our economy. But nobody seems to care much about the unemployed. Apart from Iain Duncan Smith, of course - or so he would have us believe. In a speech last May, in which he introduced his ideas for welfare reform, he announced, 'We must be here to help improve people's lives, not just park them on long-term benefits. Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy' One of the proposals in IDS's welfare reforms which are currently being pushed through parliament is to involve more private companies in getting the unemployed back to work, who will then be paid for their successes. It's hardly an original idea – Jobcentre Plus already has contracts with hundreds of such organisations ('training providers' they're called in a classic example of New Labour-speak ) whereby claimants of Jobseekers Allowance are forced to attend 'employability training', which often involves little more than them being sat in a room with some newspapers and the Internet for 5 hours a day (if you care to search the web, there are a fair few ranting forums and blogs devoted to these places). The providers have various targets, for getting people into work or onto work placements, and they are paid according to their results. This was the New Labour version, so one can only assume that the Tory version is going to be even more wedded to free market dogma. I worked in the employability sector for a while in the mid-noughties and have friends who still do. I can say fairly confidently that it is run by a bunch of cowboys. A4E, one of the government's largest private contractors, was investigated by the DWP in 2009 for fraudulent practices, including falsifying employer signatures. It was brushed off by A4E as an aberration, but it is symptomatic of the way that many such companies are run; I know of many cases, from my own and others' experiences, in which signatures have been forged, paperwork falsified and evidence faked in order for targets to be met and money to be claimed from the Job Centre. One such instance involved a bewildered client being asked to pose for a photograph standing by a photocopier, only to find out later that this was being used as evidence of an office work placement that she had never done.
• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by analiensaturn
  These organisations treat their unemployed clients with contempt. People are regularly put on unpaid work placement schemes, usually with unglamourous high street outfits like Iceland or Poundstretcher, sometimes with the vague promise of a job at the end but just as often not, and expected to be grateful. One man I knew, a 50 year old from Sri Lanka, began a 2 week placement as a shelf filler at a high street chain on the understanding he would be offered a job at the end. The period was extended to 4 weeks and then to 6 weeks, at the end of which he had sustained a bad back injury from the heavy lifting and the offer of a job was withdrawn. 6 weeks of slave labour for a crappy minimum wage supermarket job that never materialised and which gave him a bad, possibly long term, back injury. Is this the kind of aspiration that IDS wants to see more of?
• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by analiensaturn
  The government schemes are for those with a full brain and low morals to milk those with less mental skills for profit.I had dealing with similar organisations and know them as wolves.
• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by Wayne_Kerr
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• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by Eli
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• Comment on Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante! by Eli
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