Today’s the day corporate employers and Tories celebrate forced work and benefit sanctions – #esday16

Last Updated: April 15, 2016By
This image was created by protesters against the welfare-to-work industry, to be shared on Twitter and elsewhere. Let's make it happen.

This image was created by protesters against the welfare-to-work industry, to be shared on Twitter and elsewhere. Let’s make it happen.

It should be a national scandal.

Not only has the Conservative Party created a system in which people without jobs are forced to work hard just to earn their poverty, but the private organisations hired to inflict this torture are taking a day to celebrate it.

Today.

The Employment Related Services Association – ERSA – would have you believe the following:

“This will be a day for the employment support sector to open its doors across across the UK and show key stakeholders, such as local networks, agencies and businesses, what employment support does in their community.”

Fellow blogger Johnny Void has a different view – and This Writer shares it:

According to ERSA, the trade body established to lie on behalf of companies running workfare and forced training schemes, this exciting day will offer a chance to show the impact of ’employment support’ in local communties.

Welfare to work companies are being encouraged to invite employers, MPs and other local agencies to their premises to show off all the wonderful support beig inflicted on unemployed and disabled people by companies like G4S, Atos and Maximus.

Perhaps they could also take them to a local foodbank and show them all the people who have had their benefits sanctioned for being late to a meeting with their so-called Work Coach or not turning up for workfare.

Or organise a tour of closed local libaries and other public services to show how funding has been much better spent forcing disabled people to endlessly attend CV workshops and recruiting young people to work in supermarkets without pay.

And it is funding that lies behind ERSA’s shabby promotional drive… With George Osborne turning off the money tap and chaos at the Department of Work Pensions then for the first time in two decades the future of this sector does not look so rosy.  There has never been a better time to escalate the struggle against these parasites.

Luckily ERSA insist you do not have to be a member of their organisation to take part in Employability Day.  Just turn up, let yourselves in, bring a cake they seem to be saying.  Let’s not disappoint them.

Companies taking part in the day are using the hashtag #esday16.  ERSA have also produced a map of where events are taking place– although predictably, it doesn’t really work.

There will rarely be a better time to show the real impact that benefit sanctions and forced work have inflicted on our communities.  Be creative and spread the word.

Source: April 15 Is Workfare Day – A Chance To Tell The Truth About Benefit Sanctions And Forced Work #esday16 | the void

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2 Comments

  1. Brian April 15, 2016 at 11:42 am - Reply

    I will boycott any organisation participating in this sanctioned slave trade.

  2. steven mcguire April 15, 2016 at 12:30 pm - Reply

    what gets me mike who voted these vermin in they must be hiding in their lairs all the forums ive been on they don’t seem to be any scum torie voters I cant understand hoW we have a PM caught in the act and hes still at no 10 where is the GREAT in BRITAIN

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