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Home | The Socialist 22 June 2006 | Join the Socialist Party Fight Low Pay
ISR campaigning against low pay in Cardiff So the first task when you recover from exams is spending days traipsing around, facing rejection, looking for a boring job where you get paid peanuts. Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, International Socialist Resistance (ISR)But why is it like this? Tescos don't seem to be doing too badly. Over £2 billion in profit last year! Yet conditions for the workers don't seem so great. No sick pay, low wages, long, tiring shifts. And Tescos aren't the only place to treat us like that - ever worked in MacDonalds, Burger King, Somerfields, any hotel or restaurant...? Job agencies often seem like the only way to get a job. They say they are there to provide a service - but it's mainly a service to themselves because for every hour we work they make money. Often there's no decent training, less rights than permanent work and little chance of getting a permanent secure job. MacJobs - they're loving it! How come the minimum wage, which is a poverty wage, is lower if you're under 21? 18-21 year olds are entitled to £4.25, 16 and 17 year-olds get £3 and there is no minimum if you are under 16! ISR members want to do something about this. We are launching a campaign against the lower rates of pay for young people. We demand equal pay for equal work but we also want the minimum wage to be raised to a level you can survive on. And we've had enough of the money-grabbing job agencies. They double our exploitation. We want a publicly funded job and benefit service.
Join ISR and the fight for our future.We are calling a national day of action over the weekend of 15 and 16 July.Get in touch to discuss plans in your area. Ring: 020 8558 7947.www.anticapitalism.org.ukemail: anticapitalism@hotmail.co.uk.
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SUMMER
HOLIDAYS at last... but you're broke.
As
soon as we had set up our stall with petitions, union application forms
and ISR Know Your Rights cards we attracted attention. But things really
began to get going when we lowered our banner from a nearby roof
(above).