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If you continue to exploit us we WILL shut you down.

Private companies are benefiting from people who are made to work unpaid on threat of loss of benefits.

This means that those on benefits are being made to work for companies such as Sainsbury's, Holland and Barrett, Primark, Arcadia Group and many more shops on our high street not for a fair, living wage but for £2.25 an hour for up to 30 hours per week.

The government calls it "work experience", we call it exploitation.

It means that companies involved aren't hiring people who need jobs in favour of this free labour.

It means that those who could actually be employed by the company and then go on to be "economically active" and pay income taxes are instead struggling to survive on way under £100 a week.

It means that even disabled people, pushed off DLA and on to JSA by the government's ridiculous new guidelines for what makes you "fit to work" can be forced to work 30 hours a week.

So we're taking action about one of the many stores who exploit the unemployed in the traditional UKuncut fashion. Join us.

LEARN MORE:

Boycott Workfare website: http://www.boycottworkfare.org/

Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/16/young-jobseekers-work-pay-unemployment

Red Pepper article: http://www.redpepper.org.uk/all-work-and-no-pay/

TRL blog: http://truth-reason-liberty.blogspot.com/2011/11/organising-against-workfare.html

Right to Work piece: http://righttowork.org.uk/2011/06/boycott-workfare-and-save-the-minimum-wage/

Where's the Benefit? piece: http://wheresthebenefit.blogspot.com/2011/11/workfare-exploitative-and-cruel.html