No Jobs O Home No Future
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-02-10Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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"To support YTS would amount to supporting low wages... WE need to be aware of the differences between the objectives of the Manpower Services Commission trying to operate as a service for the unemployed - and the way the MSC is used as a vehicle for enforcing Tory attacks/controls on the unemployed.
The compulsory element of Youth Training Initiative along with the minimal allowances of £15 per week, was fiercely opposed by the MSC - who had drawn up totally different set of proposals for training the unemployed.
The government forced the MSC to adopt the YTI as the lory government had drawn it up, though widespread opposition to the compulsory training, and the low allowance, forced the government to concerned about the plight of the unemployed.
The concept that young people have to be trained to the work ethic, before they are able to get a job is being popularised by the Tories - and wrongly accepted by many in the labour movement as an attempt to cover up the real nature scheme.
To support YTS, with the CP scheme operating alongside it, would amount to supporting low wages brought about by wage cutting.
Once again the employers will receive their share of the tax-payers' money, via the MSC.
In industry and local government apprenticeships are now almost nonexistent. Existing training facilities are not being used.
In large engineering factories these facilities will be hired out to the government to reduce the overheads of the factory. Similarly, any production capacity currently not being used can be adapted for the same purpose.
Production work could be carried out under the guise of training - which means attacking jobs, particularly those of the unskilled and semi-skilled.
On top of this, employers will receive subsidies that encourage them to take on extra young workers. This will result in the disappearance of all paid jobs for young workers.
Labour councillors should surely be fighting for youth to be taken on direct as full-time workers and trained as such. They should not support the YTS. What employers will pay young workers when the MSC will do it for them? JOHN HARRIS
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Mick Jarmaine looks at the new Youth Training Scheme