Socialist Outlook

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Yorkshire demands... Jobs not the JSA

· Socialist Outlook no. 86, June 24 1995 · 511 words

of these instructions and your benefit will be cut for one to six Branch Sec, CPSA weeks.

North Humberside The Tories may claim that they are helping people back to ES, personal work. In fact they are giving yet capacity another helping hand to the bosses. Under capitalism, the TRADE union and Labour unemployed form a reserve Party activists from all army of labour. The JSA will Yorkshire have launched a enable the members of this recampaign against the Job serve army to be constructed to be conscripted into work on Seekers Allowance.

They met in Hull's Trades starvation wages.

Job Centre managers have and Labour Club on June 6.

already broken their own rules The initiative for the event, on advertising vacancies for organised by Hull and District scab labour. How much harder Trades Council, came from my will it be for your union to orown union branch. ganise if your boss can ring the As Job Centre workers, we Job Centre and ship in workers will be at the sharp end of the who have no choice about their Tories' latest assault on the terms and conditions of work. working class. As This is why Hull trade unionists, we owe it to the Job Centre Trades Council campaign against wider labour managers have the JSA as "an atmovement to in- crease awareness already broken tack on us all." It's also why our camof what the JSA their own rules paign is not just will mean for mil lions of people. on advertising about fighting JSA.

After a lot of deWe must also be vacancies for bate, we decided to at the forefront of the fight against scab labour. endorse the Trades Council's call for a the JSA.

link to be forged beNot only will tween our camthe JSA cut the already inadepaign against the JSA can now quate benefits available to the unemployed, it will also force get underway.

Leaflets are being produced wages down and make the unfor different groups of workers ions' task of winning decent who will be hit by the JSA in terms and conditions much different ways. We hope to harder.

hope to produce more detailed Under the JSA, the unem- briefings on JSA, full employployed will be faced with a stark choice — a low paid job or no ment and the minimum wage to enable activists to take the benefit. The Employment Servcampaign into their workice will be able to impose a Job places, trade union and Labour Seekers Direction at any time Party branches. during a claim. It will be able to set out courses of action which • To find out more contact are compulsory in all but name Nigel Danby, TU Side Of— apply for a job, go on a fice, Beverley Job Centre, scheme, turn up for an inter- Crosskill House, Mill Lane, view, get your hair cut.

Beverley, East Yorks HU17 The list is literally endless but all the items have one thing 7NH. Please mark your envelope "In Confidence". in common: fail to follow one

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