The Void
An archive of the fantastic blog, The Void, by anarchist unemployed activist Johnny Void.
Defend the Right to be Accompanied at Job Centre Interviews.
On Monday 3rd October (2016) demonstrators will be descending on High Riggs jobcentre at Tollcross in Edinburgh. From noon till 2pm protestors will be insisting that “Advocacy is not a crime” and that the DWP must recognise the right of all claimants to be accompanied at all benefits interviews. What’s this all about?
The Cultural Hegemony of “Mental Health”
In this guest article Dr Bruce Scott challenges the way the “mental health” system and its institutions have been co-opted and actively promote capitalism. This system, driven by a profit motive, rather than a desire to benefit patients, has produced “fear and submission to an ideology which controls and mystifies the masses”.
My Experience Dealing With the Work Programme and the Salvation Army, 2012
In 2012 I was assigned to the Salvation Army, with no consent, under the Tory party's Work Programme initiative. This is my sad little story. Enjoy!
Unemployment, the JobCentre, and the imposition of labour discipline
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Oct 30 2012 20:26
Having been gainfully unemployed for a number of months, I’ve recently returned to take a swim in the shark-infested, soul-destroying, disease-ridden hell hole that is the job market. It’s also the first time I’ve been, ehhem, lucky enough to be able to claim dole. This means applying for jobs and making a fortnightly trip to the JobCentre. And it sucks.
Strike by DWP contractors
Submitted by Django on Apr 10 2012 20:15
Balfour Beatty staff employed to work at DWP sites have struck today in a row over redundancies.
A glimpse into the future of outsourced Britain - expensive, inefficient and on its way
Submitted by Django on Oct 4 2010 11:09
Last month the government's spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, published its report on the Pathways to Work Scheme. The programme, brought in at a cost of over £760 million four years ago, was part of the then government's attempt to target 'welfare cheats' and shift claimants off incapacity benfit and into work.
100,000 civil servants to strike on April 24
Submitted by Steven. on Apr 19 2008 12:14
Workers in ten government departments and agencies will join thousands of other public and voluntary sector workers in a strike over pay.
Two-day DWP strike ends
Submitted by Ed on Mar 20 2008 12:42
Thousands of Job Centre and benefit office staff carried out a 48-hour strike this week against a new three-year pay deal.
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