http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/ Campaigns for the right to a decent job for all with a living wage of at least £8 en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:20:26 GMT Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:20:26 GMT Youth Fight For Jobs RSS feeder youthfightforjobs@googlemail.com (Youth Fight For Jobs) http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7058 <b>Our future under attack:</b> It seems that £30,000 a year can almost guarantee you top grades in your A-levels. This year, students from private schools were more than twice as likely to get the new A* grades as those from comprehensives... Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7054 The statistics range wildly but one thing is obvious - young people's plans for the future are being dashed, writes Ben Robinson.<br /> Tens of thousands of college leavers are having the university door slammed in their faces. Not because they can’t perform in exams. Not even because they’re not prepared to get into the huge amounts of debt demanded by the fees system. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7055 As well as huge cuts, the Con-Dem government's agenda for higher education includes throwing open the doors to the creation of private universities. <br /> Private company, BPP which already has sites across the country running business and law degrees, has now been awarded university college status. <br /> <br /> <br /> Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7052 The Tories' new youth service plan is the latest attempt to use young people as free labour. Billed as "non-military national service", it will offer 16 year olds an eight week programme of volunteering... Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7036 "ENOUGH IS enough" by Donna Summer and Barbara Striesand may not be the greatest song ever but the title illustrates the mindset of many a modern day worker, writes Martyn Yates. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7028 I was invited to address the UCU union's day of action rally in Nottingham on Sunday on behalf of Youth Fight for Jobs, writes Jethro Waldron. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/../petition/472 <b>To all campaigns, activists and student unions fighting cuts and fees, </b><br /> Our generation faces unprecedented attacks on education. Already the cuts slaughter began by New Labour in universities, is being extended by the new CON-DEM government. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7027 Both UCU, the union for academic staff in universities and colleges, and Unite, Britain's biggest trade union whose British Airways members are currently on strike, unanimously agreed to back the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign at their annual conferences. Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7026 The latest unemployment figures saw those looking for a job top 2.5 million, 16-17 unemployment rise by 4.4%, and the number of economically inactive reach its highest ever levels. But neither the Conservative or Liberal Democrat wing of this new government has proposed serious measures to provide jobs for workers and young people, facing the brunt of this ongoing crisis. Instead the headlines are £6 billion cuts in public services to reassure the ‘markets’, code for multi-billionaires like George Soros and co. Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7025 THE RMT rail workers' union called a meeting in Barking on Sunday 11 April. The aim was to convince people in Barking, who are understandably angry with New Labour's cuts record, not to vote for the far-right, racist British National Party in protest...<br /> <br /> <br /> Watch: <a href="http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/video/barking_RMT.wmv">video of Barking RMT meeting </a> - Opens in new window Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7021 The Future Jobs Scheme is the government's new initiative aimed at getting young people back into work. But it appears to be more about driving the young unemployed off benefits, writes Vincent Leonard. <br /> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7022 <b>May Day march in Hull:</b> Hull Youth Fight for Jobs will call a march through the city centre to mark May Day. It has been many years since May Day was last celebrated in Hull and the demonstration is the culmination of the efforts... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7023 <b>New pamphlet: Our education under attack:</b> This is a new pamphlet on how to fight the cuts and increases in fees by members of socialist students and youth fight for jobs... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7019 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 <a href='http://www.socialiststudents.org.uk/page.php?article=1546' target='_blank'>here</a>.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. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7018 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... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7020 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.<br /> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7009 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... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7010 On Thursday 18 March the higher education funding council for England (HEFCE) will announce more detailed plans for university cuts... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7013 <b>12 noon, Mayesbrook Park, Nearest tube Upney:</b> 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... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/article/7004 <b>Join the Manchester march for jobs on 13 March:</b> "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. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT