Britain, Solidarity Federation, Anti-workfare campaign in Thames Valley - workfare Reading Poundland

The anti-workfare campaign is building up in Reading. Over the summer, SF members
organised ad hoc pickets with local IWW and AF members. We decided to build up the basis
of these joint efforts through coordinated planned actions. We held an initial meeting in
August at which we decided to follow SF?s national target and to build our campaign with
claimants. So we are aiming to alternate actions outside Poundland and JobCentrePlus.
Three weeks ago, two of us distributed propaganda on the rights of claimants in relation
to the workfare schemes outside JobCentre. It became obvious that many of them did not
know about it yet. Last Saturday, we held the first picket outside Poundland, which was
met with overwhelming sympathy for the campaign from workers and members of the public alike.

Bron : a-infos-en@ainfos.ca