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
Protest against education cuts 18 March
100,000 will be excluded yet again from University this September, not because they do not have the abilities, but because this government has capped university places. Barred from education and with few jobs on offer, this is New Labour throwing many more of our generation onto the scrapheap. On 18 March, the university funding body HEFCE will announce further cuts in education across England. So even if you make it there, you will still face a worse education and get a huge debt to pay off! Youth Fight for Jobs, together with Socialist Students, is protesting this at colleges and universities everywhere. For full details see here.In London we will be handing in an open reply to David Lammy, Universities Minister, who attempted to justify the governments cuts. Our reply can be found below.
Support the PCS strike 24 March
The Government are looking to cut around 100,000 jobs from essential services such as job centres. In an attempt to grab £500 million from the pockets of those they want to fire, they're trying to change...
On Saturday 13 March Youth Fight for Jobs organised demonstrations and campaigning activity against youth unemployment, cuts in education and the racist BNP. A demonstration of 400 marched through Barking, together with a demonstration in Manchester and protests in Yorkshire. For more reports, read here...
Demonstrate in Barking March 13!
12 noon, Mayesbrook Park, Nearest tube Upney: 1 million young people. That's one in five of us who can't get a job, can't get into education. Bankers and the bosses, who caused the crisis in the economy, have been looked after by the government. But...
David Lammy, University Minister, writes to Youth Fight for Jobs
below is David Lammys original letter to Youth Fight for Jobs in response to our 10,000-strong petition handed in on our demonstration on November 28 2009. to see YFJs response, see the link at the end.
Thursday 18 March: Protest against cuts in higher education
On Thursday 18 March the higher education funding council for England (HEFCE) will announce more detailed plans for university cuts...
Join the Manchester march for jobs on 13 March: "Hundreds queue for 56 jobs at Selfridges", reported the Manchester Evening News before Christmas, when 600 job-seekers waited for hours in a queue stretching two blocks for a handful of temporary posts, writes Poppy Hamilton, Manchester Youth Fight for Jobs.
Cabin crew v management: Round two
British Airways: THE UNITE union announced on Monday that British Airways (BA) cabin crew voted overwhelmingly for strike action, writes Neil Cafferky.
On the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first Labour Exchange it was disappointing to see criticisms by the government and the Tories of the under-resourced services in Jobcentre Plus, writes Katrine Williams,.
Staythorpe: the fight for workplace safety
Over 500 construction workers at the Staythorpe power station site near Newark in Nottinghamshire took immediate strike action last week, staying out for three days, writes Jon Dale.