tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post6350230031790287682..comments2024-03-28T19:20:52.408+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Ann John Steps Into 'Difficult' Negotiations with VeoliaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-19950073842789642132011-08-06T09:29:16.194+01:002011-08-06T09:29:16.194+01:00Received from Kilburn Boycott Workfare:
In the 19...Received from Kilburn Boycott Workfare:<br /><br />In the 1980`s in New York, the City made thousands of public service workers redundant, replacing them with claimants or the newly introduced work programme or Workfare. Claimants being forced to work for their benefit money. 1st June 2011. The oxymoronic "mandatory voluntary work programme" was introduced to England, where claimants will be bullied,sanctioned and coerced into working up to 30 hours for their benefit money, which works out at under 2 pound per hour while still having to prove that they are still actively seeking work. Our cynical heads are concerned that Brent council, unethical Veolia and poverty pimps, private profit making companies Ingeus UK, Maximus UK and (G) Reed employment who have taken the contracts at millions of pounds of taxpayers money to implement this will replace redundant public service workers with claimants forced on to Workfare. This will inevitably lead to wages being forced down and encourage a climate of cheap forced labour. Please visit www.boycottworkfare.org and sign the pledge to boycott workfare.Martin Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02194641151012303116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-84810838102444695962011-08-04T15:53:19.409+01:002011-08-04T15:53:19.409+01:00Maybe if the council had kept this service in hous...Maybe if the council had kept this service in house instead of outsourcing everything then it wouldn't be over a barrell. <br />I'm sure privatisation works well in some areas but right now I'm struggling to think of one area where the customer has got a better service. <br />Even areas where there is competiotion seem to have led to what is effectively cartels and bewildering arrays on tariffs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com