Tag: Protests

Welfare Reform rallies in three towns

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Trade Unionists, claimants and Unite Community activists gathered On Thursday 11 September in Sheffield, Huddersfield and Leeds to protest against the cruel and unnecessary Welfare Reforms. The activists held rallies and Information stalls and picketed one company in Sheffield over their continued use of workfare. The Yorkshire Post covered the event in Leeds (here).

Report From Leeds

“A big thanks to everyone who came along to Briggate today to show their disgust at these cruel attacks on claimants and people with long-term illness and disability. Members of the public were sympathetic, and we got a fair bit of media coverage – even if it wasn’t all accurate! Our new display boards attracted a fair bit of attention, so hopefully some of the passers-by will have learned a thing or two about what it’s really like to be on benefits and to be constantly threatened with having those benefits cut or removed.

We need to keep fighting – against the bedroom tax, against sanctions and workfare in all their forms, against the vicious Work Capability Tests and all the other attacks on the unwaged and low-paid. We need to be clear that our lives are worth more than this – whether it’s the constant misery of the job-center and the rent office or whether it’s the misery of long hours of pointless, tedious and unhealthy work at wages that barely put bread on the table. Keep watching this space for details of meetings, actions and info.”

Hands Off Our Homes Website

The Huddersfield Group are going from strength to strength and will be holding an activist training day on 30th of September email Claire Mawson to book a place.

More information on Sanctions

And Welfare Myth Busters

Budget Day Protest

Unite Community members in Leeds linked up with the People’s Assembly to Protest about the Useless Budget Day Proposals yesterday, As was pointed out working Families are at least £1600  a year worse off with thousands of workers forced into accepting low wages and zero hours contracts. The group used the opportunity to raise awareness about the Demonstration against the hated Bedroom Tax on the 5th of April.

More here.

Unite Budget Day Briefing here.

Fast Food Workers

Unite Community Branch’s will be supporting the National Day of Action Against Zero Hours and Helping the bakers Union organise workers in Fast Food Companies. Demonstrations outside McDonalds and Burger King have been called outside their flagship Stores in London and similar protests will be taking place in our region. Watch this space for more info on the demos. Good link here  http://www.politics.co.uk