July 29, 2015
Following nine months of protest from Haringey Solidarity Group, North London Hospice (NLH) has agreed to stop taking part in workfare and exploiting people on benefits. This is a victory for the anti-workfare movement and a blow for workfare provision in Haringey. Until this month NLH was using Community Work Placements, a kind of workfare, […]
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June 17, 2015
Activists from Haringey Solidarity Group and Boycott Workfare today held a demonstration against the use of workfare by the Finsbury Park Business Forum. Under the Tories workfare initiative recipients of benefits are being forced to work at least 30 hours a week of unpaid labour as community wardens or face harsh sanctions. Workfare placements last […]
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June 8, 2015
Last Sunday, 7th June 2015, about 10 of us met at North London Hospice in Turnpike Lane, to picket the shop in our ongoing campaign against Workfare and Community Work Placements – the use of unpaid and forced labour (see Boycott Workfare web site). We fully support the work North London Hospice are doing, but […]
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May 19, 2015
Saturday 30th May, 10.30am-5.30pm (arrive from 10.15am for a cup of tea), London Welsh Centre (10 minutes’ walk from King’s Cross station) Details of all the workshops we’ll be hosting on the day are now on the Boycott Workfare website. If you’ve got any suggestions or would like to be involved in one, please get […]
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March 21, 2015
‘MAKING WORK PAY’ is a hypocritical euphemism used by Iain Duncan Smith and the government to justify cuts in welfare benefit payments and make claiming increasingly difficult. With this completely false statement comes no assurance or intent to increase and legally enforce a minimum wage significantly, in line with the massively inflated costs of rent, […]
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February 14, 2015
On Saturday, 7th. February, North London Hospice held a major fund-raising event, “Strictly Dancing”, at the Arts Depot in Finchley. This event promised to draw not only senior staff from the charity but also supporters and well-wishers. As part of our ongoing campaign to persuade NLH to withdraw from the Community Work Placement programme, we […]
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February 1, 2015
“If we want them to tap dance, then they will tap dance,” a Whitehall official on government plans for benefit claimants (Sunday Times, 2012) Take action this week to stop workfare in North London Hospice shops – From Mon 2 Feb – in a “communications conga” – social media / email / phone action – […]
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January 29, 2015
The story so far of our continued campaign against the hated Community Work Placement scheme and the ongoing participation of North London Hospice In May last year, the Department for Work and Pensions launched its latest workfare scheme for the long-term unemployed – Community Work Placements (CWP). Previous schemes met with outrage when corporations, like […]
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December 5, 2014
This Saturday, 6 December, 12.30pm. Join us on a picket of North London Hospices shop on Wood Green High Road (Turnpike Lane end). Haringey Solidarity Group continues its support for claimants referred to Urban Futures as part of the hated Community Work Placement scheme. On a weekly basis, claimants tell us the shameful way in […]
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November 28, 2014
A couple of us from Haringey took a trip to the Urban Futures office in Ilford this morning. We were there to protest the use of the Community Work Program, talk to anyone attending Urban Futures who maybe on the scheme and to inform local people as to why we were there.
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