It’s our money, it’s our future, it’s under attack.
NO TO WELFARE ABOLITION – UK DAY OF ACTION, JUNE 16th
This is multi-millionaire Emma Harrison (right), owner of A4e, the UK’s most prominent private agency involved in “Welfare to Work” (having to work for your benefits.)
We want to let her and her pals in government know that welfare is a right and should not have to be earned. People not in waged work contribute a lot to their communities. Single parents are already working and deserve a decent wage. People are more than just cash generators.
While the sick, the disabled, single parents, the unemployed and other people who need support face cuts in services and the prospect of being made to work for their benefits…
…SOME FOLKS ARE JUST RAKING IT IN
“Welfare to Work” effects us all, waged or unwaged. Low income, temporary and insecure jobs will be replaced by “work for your benefits”. Privatisation of the Department of Work and Pensions role, e.g. bringing in profit-hungry firms such as A4e, is an attack on DWP/JobcentrePlus workers and our rights to access welfare. Here in Edinburgh for example A4e have refused to allow people to be accompanied to interviews, a right everyone has when visiting the DWP and Jobcentres.
Join us on Wednesday June 16th at 11 am outside the Edinburgh office of A4e at 34 Earl Grey St. (Lothian Road) to demand justice for the unwaged and an end to the forced labour of “welfare to work”.
Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty c/o ACE 17 West Montgomery Place EH7 5HA, 0131 5576242, email; ecap@lists.riseup.net
