---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:46 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] GLOBAL THUNDERCLAP INTERFERENCE: TODAY IS 7 OCTOBER HAPPY ‘WORLD DECENTWORK DAY” TUC YOU To: squares <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "<[email protected]>" < [email protected]>, Discussion list about the WSF < [email protected]> Today is 7 october ‘World Decent Work” day, and we will celebrate the world decent work day of the masses of unemployed and hopless, who are now being sold to companies not only for free but with monetary awards paid with peoples money for being very nice and polite by accepting and letting slaves do some stuff in their plantations and develop themselves. Our special present goes for TUC, a ‘traade’ unino that backs up this corporate scam in the UK, letes have some fun about such a ‘decent work’ ideas. Here is the Global Union, IndustriALL launches social media campaign “STOPrecariousWork’ https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/16472-stop-precarious-work?locale=en And this is the website of the Boycott Workfare campaign in the UK, fingering the antinomy of TUC which declared very recently its support to the free labour / workfare benefit scheme in the UK: http://www.boycottworkfare.org Anyone like to join to our spontaneous Interference action to the ‘#STOPrecariousWork’ twitter campaign, aiming to ridicule and address the antinomies of TUC, as well as similar union and left party positions in backing up such slavery schemes, we invite you all to create an interference to the IndustriALL campaign using hashtag #boycottWorkfare, linking global trends and important issues and mobilisations going on around the world, like #OccupyHK, #occupyKobane, #direnKobane through the tweets you send. During the day we will be using a collective pad to produce and shaer creative and multi lingual tweet samples, in order to help others: https://titanpad.com/stoppreariousworkinterference Join the action! Campaign Tag: #STOPrecariouswork[image: image] <https://gnunion.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/image1.jpg> Interference Tag: #BoycottWorkfare [BoycottWorkfare is also the name of the campaign in the UK, that is portesting TUC's support for Workfare regime]

On 06 Oct 2014, at 11:36, Martin Mair <[email protected]> wrote:

Please support and spread!

Martin Mair Active Unemployed Austria http://www.aktive-arbeitslose.at

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [boycott-workfare-announcements] Day 1 online action: Challenge the TUC’s support for workfare Datum: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 07:17:29 +0100 Von: Boycott Workfare <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Antwort an: Boycott Workfare <[email protected]> <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Take action: Challenge the TUC’s support for workfare <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=3782> *Posted:* October 6th, 2014 | *Author:* editor <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?author=1> | *Filed under:* Call to action <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?cat=3>, Unions <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?cat=4> | *Modify:* Edit This <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=3782&action=edit> | No Comments » <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=3782#respond>

[image: traineeships] <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/traineeships.jpg>*Challenge the TUC’s support for workfare, on the first day of online action for the Boycott Workfare week of action <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=3736>. *

On 1 August 2014, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) made a joint statement <http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/skills-policy/tuc-and-cbi-agree-joint-statement-traineeships> with Confederation of British Industries (CBI) to back Traineeships for 16-23 year olds and “show support” for the businesses that benefit from the unpaid labour on this scheme.

Traineeships involve training and “work placements” for up to six months <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279752/operational_traineeship_supplementary_information.pdf> – all unpaid. The TUC’s Assistant General Secretary Paul Nowak <http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/skills-policy/tuc-and-cbi-agree-joint-statement-traineeships> hails Traineeships as “an important first step towards the world of work”. But in giving a green light to a new layer of unpaid work in the economy, the TUC is in fact helping to shrink opportunities for young people, undermine the going rate, and replace paid work with workfare.

Traineeships mean that young people are now expected to work unpaid for six months <http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=2681> before even qualifying for an interview for an apprenticeship. The lucky few who make it through the interview can look forward to a minimum wage of £2.73 an hour, as an apprentice.

[image: TUC A5 Protest]

If a young person does not take part in the training, they face punitive sanctions. The work placement segment itself may not be backed with the direct threat of sanctions, but, between the economic coercion of a jobs market with so few footholds and the draconian job centre regime, few people will feel able to turn them down.

Instead of demanding decent wages, the TUC is supporting McDonalds, Toyota, Virgin Media, BT, Vodafone, Phones4U, Siemens, Capita, local councils and many more <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traineeships-eligible-providers> being supplied with unpaid staff for up to 6 months on benefits alone, without any obligations to hire them!

The TUC plans to march <http://www.tuc.org.uk/economic-issues/britain-needs-pay-rise> behind the slogan “Britain needs a payrise” on 18 October. It seems to have chosen to ignore the millions of us who do not have paid work and instead face workfare and sanctions.

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