Sacking Decent Hard Working Disabled Workers And Forcing Them On To
Social Benefits Makes No Sense.
In a shameful move, the Tory Work and Pensions Minister Iain Duncan Smith is trying to shut down 54 British Factories and throw 1,518 hardworking people on to benefits. Even worse, these are Remploy factories - so that the workers that he wants sacked are mostly disabled. Help us keep these British factories open for business and stop this Government putting disabled workers on to the scrap heap.
Hit send now on our message to Iain Duncan Smith, asking him to meet with Remploy workers. IT won't take you more than a minute to do - but it is a minute that could save the jobs of over a thousand disabled people. Shutting down Remploy shows how heartless and arrogant this Government is. In fact Iain Duncan Smith told a Remploy worker to her face that he wanted to make her unemployed so that he could give someone else a "proper job".
This is unjustified and nasty. As a union official I had responsibility for Remploy's workers and I know firsthand that they absolutely do "proper jobs". Remploy is a brilliant testimony to the British manufacturing industry and it provides real work for disabled people in this country - and we should be proud of it. I know too that Remploy is much more than a workplace to its staff. Steve Collins, a worker in the North Staffs factory, told us that his job at Remploy "saved his life", offering him somewhere he can earn a dignified living, after years of bullying in mainstream employment. This is what Remploy means to its workers - and why we cannot just let it be destroyed.
Tell Iain Duncan Smith what you think of his decision to throw 1,518 hard working disabled people onto the scrapheap. Ask him now to save British factories and jobs. Closing down our factories and forcing people onto benefits makes no economic sense at a time when more than two million people in this country are out of work. With the full force of our member's voices, we can put enough pressure on the Government to save Remploy. Thank you for standing up for these workers.
Hit send now on our message to Iain Duncan Smith, asking him to meet with Remploy workers. IT won't take you more than a minute to do - but it is a minute that could save the jobs of over a thousand disabled people. Shutting down Remploy shows how heartless and arrogant this Government is. In fact Iain Duncan Smith told a Remploy worker to her face that he wanted to make her unemployed so that he could give someone else a "proper job".
This is unjustified and nasty. As a union official I had responsibility for Remploy's workers and I know firsthand that they absolutely do "proper jobs". Remploy is a brilliant testimony to the British manufacturing industry and it provides real work for disabled people in this country - and we should be proud of it. I know too that Remploy is much more than a workplace to its staff. Steve Collins, a worker in the North Staffs factory, told us that his job at Remploy "saved his life", offering him somewhere he can earn a dignified living, after years of bullying in mainstream employment. This is what Remploy means to its workers - and why we cannot just let it be destroyed.
Tell Iain Duncan Smith what you think of his decision to throw 1,518 hard working disabled people onto the scrapheap. Ask him now to save British factories and jobs. Closing down our factories and forcing people onto benefits makes no economic sense at a time when more than two million people in this country are out of work. With the full force of our member's voices, we can put enough pressure on the Government to save Remploy. Thank you for standing up for these workers.
In solidarity, Len McCluskey,
General Secretary,
Unite the Union.
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