{"id":408,"date":"2014-09-04T02:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T02:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk\/?p=408"},"modified":"2017-08-11T02:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T02:57:22","slug":"shop-a-workfare-exploiter-forced-to-work-for-benefits-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"SHOP A WORKFARE EXPLOITER! Forced to work for benefits ? Fight back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tollcross, <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tollcross, Edinburgh Salvation Army shop besieged by anti workfare <\/span><\/strong>protesters<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tell Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty the names of any charity or company using the exploiting workfare schemes. You can do this anonymously, and we never reveal our sources.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We will contact the workfare user and explain why they should stop. If they don’t, we can then denounce them on social media, and organise demos against them. We have blockaded and occupied workfare users like the\u00a0Salvation Army, Tescos,\u00a0British Heart Foundation, Poundland etc, shutting them down for periods of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are especially keen to learn which organisations the\u00a0workfare provider Learndirect are using for Community Work Placements.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>This disgusting\u00a0new workfare scheme<\/a>\u00a0forces people to work for their benefits for six months. But it’s only just starting, and has had a lot of problems and delays, so if we step up the action against it there is a chance of stopping the scheme in its tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Information on workfare users will be especially useful in planning our Edinburgh actions during the\u00a0Boycott Workfare<\/a>\u00a0Week of Action from 4th – 12th October.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are also very keen to learn which exploiters are using Mandatory Work Activity, the Work Programme, Work Experience, Sector-Based Work Academies or any other workfare scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n

And do contact us for support in resisting workfare.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Email\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>ecap@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Text or ring<\/span><\/strong>\u00a007754 766822\u00a0<\/span>Write<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0ECAP, c\/o ACE, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA\u00a0<\/span>Phone<\/span><\/strong>\u00a00131 557 6242 (staffed Tuesdays 12-3 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Also denounce a workfare exploiter at\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.boycottworkfare.org\/?page_id=1703<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Anti-workfare blockade of the Salvation Army shop – Forest Road<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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