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Hundreds Of Disabled People Sent On Workfare Every Week, Is Unpaid Work The New Segregation?

July 22, 2014

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workfare-tesco Disabled activists protesting in 2007 against Tesco, an early pioneer of unpaid work. Pic from here

The new Minister for Murdering Disabled People, Nick Harper has teamed up with David Cameron this week to boast about huge numbers of disabled people being sent to work without pay, often for profit making companies.  The gushing press release forms part of the DWP’s cringe-making Disability Confident campaign, the latest gimmick to cover up the endless vicious attacks on disabled people by the department.

According to the figures around 45,000 people registered as disabled with Jobcentres have been referred to an unpaid work placement since 2011.  Of those 29,000 were sent on the Work Experience programme and 16,000 on Sector Based Work Academies, which the DWP now appear to be claiming leads to a guaranteed real job.  This is a lie, Sector Based Work Academies promise a job interview only as this…

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  1. Ras Ible's avatar
    Ras Ible permalink
    July 22, 2014 2:22 pm

    New form of slave labor to make somebody or corporation rich. Disgusting and revolting.

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  2. Lisa Thomson's avatar
    Lisa Thomson permalink
    July 22, 2014 2:41 pm

    why don’t they issue us all with suicide tablets and be done with it

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  3. Willy clark's avatar
    Willy clark permalink
    July 22, 2014 3:03 pm

    Just sew a yellow star on us why don’t you

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  4. Joy Allen's avatar
    Joy Allen permalink
    July 22, 2014 7:26 pm

    How come this hasn’t been taken to human rights yet?

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