Don’t share your data with the job pimps

Check out the ‘IMPORTANT INFORMATION’ button on this site. You do NOT have to share your data. A4E have been caught out trying to force a claimant to do this, and have had to apologise.   Share This:

Unemployed win right to representation at Workfare provider A4e

Unemployed people in Edinburgh have won a significant victory by forcing workfare provider A4e to recognise that claimants on their programmes have the right to take their own representative to meetings with A4e.  For over two and a half years A4e have refused to recognise reps from Edinburgh Claimants, affiliated to Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty.  A4e…Read moreRead more

Edinburgh Tesco invaded by anti-workfare protesters

Demonstrators opposing compulsory work for benefits invaded two branches of Tesco and picketed Poundstretcher and British Heart Foundation in Edinburgh today Saturday 3rd March.  Police dragged protestors out of Tescos, provoking protests and a virtual blockade of the store entrance by the police themselves.  Protests continued along the Bridges area of the city centre for…Read moreRead more

ECAP Supports the National Strike Day

On the massive 30 November Strike Day supporters of Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty joined the Jobcentre workers picket line, protested at slave labour shysters A4e, then participated in the thousands-strong march to the Scottish Parliament.   At the main entrance of High Riggs Jobcentre, Edinburgh on 30 November ECAP were warmly welcomed by the workers…Read moreRead more

THIS WED 30 NOVEMBER STRIKE DAY

THIS WED 30 NOVEMBER STRIKE DAY EDINBURGH COALITION AGAINST POVERTY ACTIVITY All welcome to join us… 8 am ONWARDS till 9.30/10ish…. JOINING JOBCENTRE WORKERS’ PICKET AT HIGH RIGGS JOBCENTRE by Tollcross   9.30 am/10ish till 11ish…  MOVING ON TO LEAFLET AND DISPLAY BANNERS AT A4E OFFICES, 34 EARL GREY STREET (just 2-3 mins away, Earl Grey…Read moreRead more