BS: Remploy closures

Subject: BS: Remploy closures
From: GUEST,alex s
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 02:17 PM

I cannot express how furious and sickened I am by the decision to close Remploy factories in order to save the most pathetic sum of money per year.
Remploy employees work very very hard, despite severe disabilities, for peanuts, while fit idle b******s sit on their arses and pick up thousands a year for doing ****all.
Robbing people of work, friends and dignity is a semi-criminal act. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! on you who did this.

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 02:25 PM

Is this a purely UK topic? If so, wish it were identified as such.

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 02:27 PM

Thank you Bill............


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures- Wales
From: maeve
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 03:41 PM

Some information here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19271882

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 06:39 AM

Irony - one one hand ATOS are forcing people with disabilities to find employment while, on the other hand the government is removing opportunities for people with disabilities to find work.

I suppose it is joined up thinking (of sorts).

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 08:49 AM

I agree. This is surely the most disgraceful act this disgraceful coalition has commited in its sordid little tenure so far.

For anyone who can help out, Disabled People Against Cuts is holding a week of action against ATOS, and probably a whole lot of everything else, to coincide with the Paralympics. See http://www.dpac.uk.net/2012/07/our-atos-games/ .

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: GUEST,alex s
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 08:56 AM

Many thanks for this, Owen

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 09:01 AM

and yet at the same time,
how much more public finance has been robbed from essential social projects,
diverted and squandered staging the glitzy high profile Paralympics ?


warped corporate political priorities ???

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 10:50 AM

Atos is one of the major sponsors of the paralympics. There has to something warped about that. Perhaps they're planning to hold a disabled-people-jumping-through-hoops-to-claim-their-incapacity-benefit competition. It would be interesting to see who got the Gold in that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 12:31 PM

I couldn't agree more. When iI was at work we used Remploy binderies and I visited them, workers took a real pride in their work. Where are the jobs in the non-subsidised sector they are now supposed to get? What will it cost in benefits when they are out of work, not to mention their loss of self-esteem?
Roll on the general election.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: Musket
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 12:41 PM

I agree about rolling on the general election, but which party wouldn't have shut Remploy factories?

Bliar and Broon shut a fair few themselves. It was Broon that said that any government backed commercial enterprise must compete on a level playing field with the private sector or face closure. If you ignore Remploy, it doesn't sound a too bad a suggestion, but factor in Remploy and it is obscene.

This lot? Don't expect anything else from them, but be careful who you would put forward as saviours....

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 02:12 PM

If responsibility for employment for people with disabilities is going to be abdicated to the private sector - will the jobs offered and the levels and salaries offered be mandated by central government - ie the number of multinational chief and senior executive roles filled by people with disabilities sand learning disabilities be proportional to the number of registered disabled?

Will the government legislate that dismissal of a registered disabled person on the grounds that they are not physically able to carry out their responsibilities will be illegal and carry the highest possible penalties?

If not will Cameron and his nasty cronies have the guts to stand up in public and admit that they intend to label people with disabilities who may have little or no opportunities for meaningful employment to either be labeled as benefit scroungers or crawl on their hands and knees to the likes of poundland for the opportunity to provide slave labour?

Subject: RE: BS: Remploy closures
From: gnu
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 05:14 PM

Cruise missile = £500,000

Give or take a few bucks according to Wiki.

Is it better to help the disabled or make the diasabled?

What a sick buncha a fucks!