East Lancashire jobless numbers still rising (From Lancashire Telegraph)

why do these people in government trying to make out they care about people being unemployed , they do not give a toss about us as long as they have there nice houses and nice cars who they trying to kid . i have been looking for full time employment for 5 years i do part time cleaning told you all before i blame theses employment agency's close the employment agencys thats the first thing you do

chris283 wrote:
why do these people in government trying to make out they care about people being unemployed , they do not give a toss about us as long as they have there nice houses and nice cars who they trying to kid . i have been looking for full time employment for 5 years i do part time cleaning told you all before i blame theses employment agency's close the employment agencys thats the first thing you do

And stop companies from exclusively employing east european agency workers whilst we have such high unemployment..Compan
ies such as Farmhouse Fayre in Clitheroe for instance. End the workfare/forced labour schemes and make companies take on paid staff instead if they need them.

shytalk i agree with you that is where problem is ban these employment agencys and fine the employers who use the foreign workers but it will fall on death ears am i right or what

I am always suspicious of these figures, It seems that unemployment in the area is used to drive wages down, only this time the Coalition is scrapping workers rights and allowing exploitation on a grand scale. This is exactly what Maggie Thatcher did in her reign of terror. Liam Fox let the cat out of the bag when he said we should scrap all workers rights to allow easier hiring and firing. He wants us all to be self employed at the behest of the big employers. He also called for capital gains tax to be scrapped for three years for companies and further benefit cuts.
I think the real Tories are starting to show their true colours to the country, It looks like another battle for survival of the poor, sick, disabled and poorly paid. Where are the unions, Why are people not banging down the doors to join? but when the union leaders are on £100000 per year I wonder if they are part of the establishment.

There has been a structural shift in the balance of power between employers and employees across large sections of the economy. The reasons for this are many and varied but I cannot help but think that the trade union movement bears some responsibility for the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in 1979.

In the last 30 years the trade unions have struggled to come to terms with this new reality and some of the current leaders are rather like the House of the Bourbons – they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. In this they share the trait with members of the Conservative Party, so perhaps they deserve each other.

I have been a member of a trade union from starting work at the age of 16 right up until the day I was made redundant nearly 40 years later. At a micro level I found trade union officials to very genuine, sincere and caring; although often misguided. At the macro level I have watched the trade union movement floundering with a mixture of incredulity and dismay at the missed opportunities to forge a different form of social democracy.

Somehow the trade union movement has become a prisoner of its own making and currently I see nothing on the horizon to suggest that it is remotely close to finding a way out.