The Tories' efforts to con the electorate their economic policies are boosting employment are backfiring, as news of job losses at Fords and the Home Office hit the headlines.
Although there is a fall in the unemployment figures this is only beCasa or the arman eue the government is using to drive people off the register. on availability, a crackdown on late signers and home visits to every new calmant are all contributing to strip the unemployed of their right The introduction of Project Work into many areas in February 100.000 from the oficial statistics.
The falure of compulsory training schemes like Project Work have been outlined in a recent TUC re. port which shows only 4.9 car cent of claimants on such schemes actully find work afterwards. Project in a job and to make bosses a quick profit by temporarily employing claimants at €10 a week.
Many trade unionists have recogforce the unemployed into their Jobs and drive down the wages of all workers.
In areas where Project Work is organising to make their employers boycott the scheme. This opposition must be combined with a fight in the workplace for increased wages for the lowest pad emproy **A statement by TUC leader John Monks condemning Project Work 1 is call Today we fight the Tories: but we should be ready to fight on against Blai as 'rotten' was encouraging, but we need more. National trade unions neto to de exerong pressure on ca bour councils to boycott and publicty condemn Project Work. Labour must state it will scrap Pro Ject Work if its elected, preventing the go-ahead of the work placement side of the scheme at the end of May.
Benefits lost
For the unemoloved and civil servants the end to the JSA and schemes like Project Work cannot come soon enough. Many unemployed have joined the homeless ano mungay through tosing their benefit as a result of the jSA.
Workers' lives are in danger, as they are an easy target for claimants anger at the new benefit laws. In between civil servants and the unemployed and this should be built in soring saxo acoon agaliss the JSA and Project Work have not helped such a relationship. Left build campaigns against benefit laws win the union away from the BlairHe 'Moderates'.
The creation of an unemployed movement is still at an early stage. Yet there are opportunities now to develop it.
The Euromarch for full employ. role. Without a movement, it will be easier for a Blair government to keep elements of the SA and drive yet more young people into porToday we must fight the Tory schemes: but tomorrow we should De ready to deles blars Protest
DISPUTE The role of the CPSA lesdership