THE RIGHT TO A DECENT JOB FOR ALL, WITH A LIVING WAGE OF AT LEAST £8 AN HOUR
NO TO CHEAP LABOUR APPRENTICESHIPS! ALL APPRENTICESHIPS TO PAY AT LEAST THE MINIMUM WAGE, WITH A JOB GUARANTEED AT THE END
NO TO UNIVERSITY FEES. SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN TO DEFEAT FEES.
Huge leap in youth unemployment figures - march for jobs!
Huge leap in youth unemployment figures, up 78,000 to 973,000
Young people marching from Jarrow to London to demand jobs
Youth Fight for Jobs is recreating the Jarrow March of 75 years ago and will be marching 300 miles to London to demand a program of job creation not job destruction. The march is backed by 8 national trade unions. We will start in Jarrow Park on 1 October at 12 noon,and finish in London with a mass demonstration on 5 November, assembling at Temple Embankment at 12 noon.
Paul Callanan, Youth Fightfor Jobs, National Organiser said: "It's been four years now since the collapse of Northern Rock and still young people are paying for a crisis caused by the banksters and the super rich. Young people now are being shot by both sides, on the one hand we have the cuts and the collapse of the high streets chains seeing young being slung out of work. And on the other we have the attacks on education cutting off the last escape route. To cap it off unemployed youthwill be used as fodder for the government's slave labour "Work Programme". If the government continue on this course then what we saw during the riots last month is but a small glimpse of the future."
"The Jarrow March for Jobs will be the start of a movement that's offers a real alternative to youth and working class people. We want the march to become the rallying point for everyone who opposes the ConDemolition of our jobs and services. We will be saying no to all cuts. We will be holding demonstrations and protests in every area we arrive in down the country - see www.jarrowmarch11.com/route for full details. We will be calling for real jobs, on decent pay and conditions.Demanding real training schemes and apprenticeships on decent pay with a job at the end. And saying that education is a right and not a privilege and shouldfree for all. Join us and refuse to be a lost generation, fight for jobs,education and our futures"
Youth Fight for Jobs waslaunched in January 2009 to combat the effects of the recession on youngpeople. We have the support of Unite, RMT, PCS, CWU, UCU, Bectu, TSSA, FBU andmany local trade union and student union groups.
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