MPs will be told: 'Don’t destroy Remploy'
11 October 2011
Remploy workers will descend on parliament on Wednesday 12
October to urge MPs to keep their factories working, as the
government’s consultation into their future nears its end.
WHEN: Wednesday 12 October, 2pm-4pm
WHERE: Houses of Parliament, Committee Room 13,
Westminster
Unite, the UK’s largest union, says that the jobs of 2,800
disabled workers are at risk because the government would rather
pull the plug and sell off the publicly-funded factories than
invest in skilled jobs for disabled workers.
The government is currently consulting on the Sayce report, due
to end in mid-October, which Unite believes is nothing more than a
smokescreen to close Remploy’s 54 factories and throw 2,800 workers
to the back of the dole queue.
Unite wants ministers to reject the Sayce report, and introduce
new management and continue with the current system of providing
supported employment for the disabled community.
The media will get the opportunity to speak to Remploy workers
who will be travelling from factories across London and as far as
North Staffordshire to a photo opportunity at 1.30pm outside the
Houses of Parliament, before they go in to lobby their constituency
MPs.
ENDS
Notes to editors:
For further information please contact Chantal Chegrinec Unite
press office on 07774 414 6777 or 020 3371 2063
