Disabled people face unlimited unpaid work or cuts in benefit

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Tueday 7th March ill be twittering from London you can find me @leonc1963

Hi PF, how did it go?? I'm sorry but don't do twittering!!

[pompeyfaith]

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Sorry for my absence, but right now the Health and Social care bill is very close to me and have been actively campaigning.

The NHS rally went very well, but unfortunately there was a news block on it heaven knows why because it was very peaceful.

The Risk Register that the con/dems have been trying to block it's release, was in high court tribunal this week and they too upheld the Information Commissioners view they it should be released only Cameron is refusing to do so or at least until the bill passes royal assent that is so wrong.

It is a very important document that details the risks that would be created if this bill went into law.

The Liberal Democrats have just taken a hit at there conference this morning in Gateshead by voting to drop the bill now although Government can ignore there wishes it does make the case harder when it goes back to the lords and peers next week.

Everyone is against this bill it must not pass into law as the public will suffer.

More later

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Well done on the campaigning PF and good news from the Lib conference!!

[5corpio]

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Cumbrian Remploy staff in London protest

Disabled factory workers who face redundancy have been demonstrating in London. The Remploy employees travelled to the capital on Monday for a week of action, co-ordinated by the unions Unite and GMB, to coincide with the TUC conference on disability which starts today. Cleator Moor’s Remploy factory, which makes specialist protection suits for the police and military, was earmarked for closure along with 35 other sites in March. Ministers said it is no longer viable to employ disabled people in specialist, subsidised workplaces. Yesterday there was a demonstration outside the offices of Disability Rights UK, formerly known as RADAR. Phil Davies, GMB national secretary, said: “Remploy disabled workers facing redundancy protested that the Sayce Report, supported by RADAR, Mind, Mencap, Scope, RNID and Leonard Cheshire, is being used as a ‘Trojan horse’ to close the Remploy factories.” Kevin Hepworth, Unite national secretary, said: “It is absolutely appalling that a disabled charity like RADAR can condone the sacking of disabled workers.”...Read more here: Cumbrian Remploy staff in London protest

[pompeyfaith]

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5corpio,

That stinks too they say the remploy factories are operating at an 80m+ loss so that is there right to close them down, however if you look at the bigger picture they will still be losing money by having to put those disabled workers into work programs which cost the taxpayer £13,580 a person.

That is the amount the government pays each employer to take a disabled person claiming ESA onto the work programme.

That group of citizens will not get the care and understanding they got under remploy either.

So muxh for the con/dems cutting the deficit, thay are on track to be spending more in one 5 year term than labour spent in there whole 13 yrs.

[5corpio]

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i know, its crazy!!!

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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Was the waste of money calculated with or without the costs of Lord Fraud's revamp of Aktion T4?

[5corpio]

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Update:

Remploy staff stage Cardiff protest over Wales closures

Remploy staff from across Wales have taken part in a rally in Cardiff protesting against plans to close factories employing disabled people. Unions say up to 1,700 workers could lose their jobs if 36 of 54 factories shut, including seven of nine in Wales. Sites at Swansea, Aberdare, Merthyr, Bridgend, Croespenmaen, Abertillery and Wrexham, and 281 jobs, are at risk. The UK government says "non-viable" factories should shut and investment go into other schemes...Read more here: Remploy staff stage Cardiff protest over Wales closures

Cumbrian Remploy staff in London protest
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[5corpio]

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Remploy to close 27 factories, government confirms

Remploy, which provides employment opportunities for disabled people, is to close half its 54 factories, the government confirmed on Tuesday. Maria Miller, minister for disabled people, told MPs that the £320m budget for disabled employment services could be spent more effectively. The 27 loss-making factories are to close between August and mid-December, putting 1,421 jobs at risk. Remploy said nine other factories had received bids from potential buyers.

Workers at Remploy's 54 factories voted in May to go on strike in protest at the planned closures. Phil Davies, national officer of the GMB union, said: "To close these factories that employ disabled people in the present economic climate is a sentence to a life of unemployment and poverty. "The strikes will go ahead on July 19 and 26 as planned and should be a rallying point, giving for each local community the opportunity to stand behind these disabled workers who will be facing the scrapheap." The government has set aside £8m to support workers who are made redundant....Read more here: BBC News - Remploy to close 27 factories, government confirms

[pompeyfaith]

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Have been following this on FB and Twitter and thus will be at the Remploy Factory in Portsmouth on both days.

I simply do not see any reason for this and will just unsettle those disabled workers in an environment that have learnt to trust and were they are not subject to bullying and harassment.

The factory in Portsmouth is profitable and makes all manner of packaging for some of the biggest companies in the UK and Europe.