Unemployment Movement

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/10/...-unpaid-work-schemes

Finally the unions wake up/speak up and realise work fare affects their members jobs,

Usdaw in discussion with a number of major companies,

'The TUC called for companies to pull out and warned that the government-mandated schemes were encouraging more unpaid work rather than creating actual jobs.'

Brendan Barber TUC "Not only are the high street names involved […] in danger of exploiting participants, the scheme also poses a very real threat to the jobs and pay of existing workers. It is also far from clear whether the placements actually involve any genuine degree of training or work experience that will be of any use to the unemployed taking part.

"The danger is that [this] is simply encouraging employers to continue using unpaid labour when what they should be doing is recruiting unemployed people into properly paid jobs."