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May 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The protest organized by GMB and UNITE trade unions, attacked the Coalition government’s plan for making at least 1,752 Remploy staff face compulsory redundancy, calling for the government to reverse its decision before the first redundancies are due to take place at the beginning of July.
The protestors waved banners with slogans such as “stop the Con-Dem government’s cuts” and “save jobs for disabled people,” expressing concerns over a new £10 million government concession, under which bosses who take over any of the 36 factories will be offered short-term subsidies.
As the protestors marched through Lloyd Street and onto the Northern Quarter, they chanted “Maria Miller, factory killer,” referring to the UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Minister for the Disabled Maria Miller who has supported the Remploy closures.
A recent decision by the Tory-led government to close 36 of the 54 Remploy’s sheltered factories, leading to 1,518 disabled staff losing their jobs, has created ire amongst British disabled people, claiming the government’s welfare cuts which have hit them the hardest.
“We have received a huge number of telephone calls from disabled people who are concerned that their family members and members of their community will be denied this type of support in the future,” said Remploy Unite officer Kevin Hepworth.
Furthermore, Unite national officer for the not for profit sector Sally Kosky said, “It is well-known that disadvantaged workers have a very difficult time in finding mainstream employment – 85 per cent of disabled people made redundant by Remploy in 2008 are still out of work today.”
Earlier this month, Welsh Government Education Minister Leighton Andrews called for the British Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to be sacked after comments he made to the Sunday Express, saying disabled staff just sit around drinking coffee all day.
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