Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

[FROM THOSE wonderful folks that brought you cheap…]

Socialist Organiser no. 63, 26 November 1981 · scan p. 13 · about 152 words

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FROM THOSE wonderful folks that brought you cheap labour, an added twist: death and mutilation. Not only do YOPs schemes not solve the problem of youth unemployment. Not only are employers using young people cheap labour to fill jobs that would normally be done at full rates of pay. Now it transpires that they are also dangerous. The Department of Employment: has confirmed that in the year up to this June, over 3,000 accidents had happened on YOP schemes, including five deaths and 23 injuries leading to ampute itions.

YOP worker *S need unions not just t o improve their pay and conditions but to save lives.

FIRST: the good news. French dockers at Cherbourg have refused to unload used nuclear fuel. The fuel was going to be reprocessed at the Cap La Hague reprocessing plant Windscale instead.

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Now. the bad. news: the fuel has been taken to

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