Council has kicked into touch the Tories plans to force the jobless to work for their benefits.
The so-called Project Work scheme is due to be introduced in Hull and Maidstone on Monday. Hull City Council was in the frame to provide work placements.
Hull Trades Council has played a vital role in co-ordinating voluntary organisation, trades unions and local MPs opposed to Project Work. Socialist Outlook spoke to Nigel Danby, CPSA *The strength and breadth of opposition to Project Work has been fantastic " explained the trades council delegate.
"First Trades Council comes out against workfare, then the TGWU, then West Hull CLP, then Hull CLP. The Council vote topped it all off. No way did a Labour council want to be responsible for the introduction of workfare into this country."
Not only is the Council's vote a vic. tory for the left. It shows that the Labour Party can still be made to act in the defence of working class people. Top possibility of taking the fight against project Work into the Labour Party would be plain daft.
The fight against Project Work is far from over for Hull Trades Council. A demo is being organised for Saturday April 13, #meeting in Victoria Square at 1l am. • Further details: Phone Keith Sinclair, Secretary Hull Trades Council (01482 802050) or Nigel Danby, Secretary CPSA Employment Service (01482 223171 ex. 365).