[Radical_childcare] Defend Welfare Day of Action 16 June - Please take part!

[Anna Davies]

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Benefits
are our right, not charity!  
No
to workfare “Work for your benefits” schemes
Working
Links doesn't work!

Wed
16th June, 11am, outside Working Links on Mare St

Join
Hackney Unemployed Workers group for the Defend Welfare network's
national day of action. We will be outside Working Links on Mare
Street, exposing the private company that makes money while letting
us down. Working Links does not work! We are forced to do pointless
job searches, we are not given the training we want, and even when
they find us jobs, they are temporary, low-paid and don't reflect our
interests.  

The
Coalition Government is talking about more use of private companies
like this to “help us into work” (work that doesn't exist: there
are 43 JSA claimants for every job in Hackney). They want to penalise
us into work, when their cuts mean there are even fewer jobs to go
around.  

Take
part in the day of action with us:  

11am-1pm Expose Working Links!
Write
your own placard saying what you think Working Links is good at...
e.g. 		wasting tax payers' money, wasting our time....
Contribute
to our “Welfare for all statement”: we are collecting messages which set out what is wrong with the way things work now and the
changes 		people want to see that would help us. Add your message on
the day, on our 		website, or at our stalls on 14th (Dalston) and 15th June (Mare St)

1pm-3pm Join the delegation to The Department for Work and Pensions
Cuts
are in the air: job cuts, welfare cuts, wage cuts. But we want to put
our 		alternative to the new Secretary of State. Forcing people to
work for their 			benefits reduces the number of jobs, making people
redundant does too, and 		wasting money on private companies like
Working Links gets us nowhere. 		We want a fair benefit system that
recognises our right to live - not just to 		survive!
(London
Coalition Against Poverty can pay your bus fare if you want to come along)

Add
your message on our website: http://hackneyunemployedworkers.wordpress.com/  
Come
along to one of our drop-in sessions, every Thursday at noon at Cafe
Bohemia by Hackney Central.
See
the National Network website: http://defendwelfare.org/  


      
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