THE RIGHT TO A DECENT JOB FOR ALL, WITH A LIVING WAGE OF AT LEAST £8 AN HOUR
NO TO CHEAP LABOUR APPRENTICESHIPS! ALL APPRENTICESHIPS TO PAY AT LEAST THE MINIMUM WAGE, WITH A JOB GUARANTEED AT THE END
NO TO UNIVERSITY FEES. SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN TO DEFEAT FEES
Bonuses for bankers but recession for workers
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YFfJ protest at rising youth unemployment, June 17, photo Ben Robinson |
My new year's resolution was to stop watching TV. This is not for health reasons but because I can't afford to buy a new one if I kick it in while watching the news! Who hasn't wanted to do that recently?
Janet Thompson
The average wage of a banker at Goldman Sachs is £309,000 while the average wage of a full-time worker in Britain is £25,800! Goldman Sachs makes £14,400 a minute in profit! That's more in a minute than I earn in a year as a full-time care worker.
And we have to foot the bill to bail the bankers out. We are the ones who face unemployment. We have to battle cuts and closures in our communities.
Working in the care sector I know a lot about cuts. Most people know someone who works in care - there are almost a million of us. They can probably recount the same horror stories of long, often illegal hours to make up for the low pay.
Building the fight against education cuts at Leeds
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Southampton students at a Campaign to Defeat Fees rally, photo Rob Sutton |
Join the demonstration on 13 February!
Last year, Michael Arthur, vice chancellor of Leeds University, announced cuts of £35 million from the university's budget, the equivalent of 700 jobs being lost, writes Iain Dalton.
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Visteon workers protest, photo Greg Maughan |
The battle between British Airways management and cabin crew intensified in the last week with a series of provocative moves by management in response to cabin crew re-balloting for strike action, writes Neil Cafferky.
South Wales signal workers on strike
RMT signal workers are striking for a second six-day period in South Wales and the Marches in protest at attempts by management to ignore negotiated agreements, writes Ross Saunders.
Mandelson savages university funding
The government's business secretary, Peter Mandelson, delivered a Christmas 'kick in the teeth' to students and university workers by adding a cuts package of £135 million onto cuts of hundreds of millions already announced, writes Matt Dobson, national organiser, Socialist Students.
Decent jobs - not slave labour
Want a job? Fine, but don't expect to be paid! That's the message from employers who put profits before young people's basic rights. Companies, such as the chain '99p Stores' which takes around £300 million a year, are asking people to take no pay during 'trial' periods.
Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs national chair
Life on the dole no life at all: The New Year has begun with a stark reminder of the human cost of the bosses' economic crisis: young people are likely to suffer 'permanent psychological scars' as a result of unemployment, according to the newly released Prince's Trust YouGov Youth Index, writes Sean Figg, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser.
The report shows that being unemployed affects young people’s health, friendships and family life. This is hardly surprising. Unemployment for under-25 year olds means living on Jobseeker’s Allowance of just £50.95 per week. On this poverty income young people cannot afford to go for a night out, buy a CD or DVD, let alone think of a holiday. Even something as simple as using the bus becomes a difficult financial decision.
Youth Fight for Jobs condemns call to force young people into 'National Civic Service'
Sean Figg, national organiser, said: "The call from Higher Education minister David Lammy for young people and students to do '100 hours community service to help the economy out of recession' sums up the government's attitude towards young people.
Support striking Devon health workers
Just before Christmas, low paid workers working for the private contractors Sodexo at North Devon District Hospital voted 97%-3% to take strike action...
Youth Fight for Jobs Press Release on Corus Workers
Youth Fight for Jobs today have been out campaigning in Teesside against the closure of the Steel Makers Factory Crous which will result in 1,700 jobs cuts...
Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) will doubtless earn a reputation for putting on the most lively, vibrant and colourful demonstrations in Britain, writes Sean Figg, YFJ national organiser.
Minister for Employment's "vampire" comments about unemployed young people
Ireland (North): A campaign group to tackle youth unemployment has demanded an apology from Reg Empey, the Minster for Employment & Learning, after comments he made to the Belfast Telegraph yesterday that young people who are unemployed are like vampires.
Youth Fight for Jobs, who organised a picket of the Department of Employment and Learning this week, has delivered a letter demanding the Minister take action to create jobs on the day when it was officially announced that over 1 in 5 young people are unemployed.
After the demo, the campaign goes on!
The demonstration on the 28 November was an excellent event for Youth Fight for Jobs, bringing together young people and trade union members who want to fight back. We need to continue the campaigning beyond today to make sure young people’s voices can be heard. Join up to youth fight for jobs today and get active...
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