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Anti-workfare campaigners blockaded a Salvation Army shop in Edinburgh for three hours on Saturday for its involvement in getting jobless people to work for their benefits.
Members of Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty (ECap) and Boycott Workfare unfurled a giant banner proclaiming “If you exploit us we will shut you down” across the shop’s door in Earl Grey Street on between 11am and 2pm, preventing customers from entering.
Police attended several times but made no arrests.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE