PCS condemns government's plans to exploit long-term unemployed
9 November 2011
"Having created the highest unemployment for 17 years and record youth unemployment, this government is now proposing to further punish and stigmatise the victims of their failing economic experiment.
"We do not have record numbers of unemployed people because of a sudden collapse of effort or discipline, but because this government has slashed jobs, cut spending and reduced demand. It has no strategy for job creation or economic growth, yet proposes a slave labour workforce.
"Alongside the creation of these new chain-gangs will be private providers to profit from unemployed people working for an effective rate of about £2 per hour. This policy is legalised exploitation, and would undercut other workers."
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