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* Ethnic minorities are twice as likely as white youth to end up on a college-based Mode B scheme.

Ethnic minorities are less likely to get onto an employer* There are only 1 in 500 youth with disabilities on Mode A schemes. On Mode B the figure is 1 in 60. * There are 40 per cent more men on YTS than women.

Join the Party witch Please send me.... months' sub, I enclose £ • To: Sochalist Organiser, 28, Middle Lane, London N8 8PI I'M working in a garage doing mechanics at the moment. I've been moved around, to the showroom, doing car-cleaning, on the forecourt, working on parts and now I'm in the workshop.

The garage Managing Director is the managing agent.

l've learnt most things at college; we used to do 2 days but now it's 1 day a week. We learn the operation of the garage at work, but we haven't done much practical work, which is what most of us went there to do. You get move into doing car-cleaning - where you don't learn a lot -except how to clean cars.

The only time you learn about mechanics is at college; unless you get a good mechanic who's got a lot of patience and will teach you things to do. The The other problem has been A Labour Party Young Socjalists member from Worthing told us about the scheme where he works college isn't too bad. We work in an annexe next to the main building. Its a nice place we had a lecturer there who was teaching us life and social skills who was a local Labour Party officer. She was going to bring someone along to teach us about Trade unions. Our Managing director didn't appreciate that at all. He got hold of a questionnaire which she gave us. He told us we couldn't go to those lessons if she was there so we missed 3 weeks of teaching.

They got us another teacher who turned out to be one of the Manging Director's friends. It was a bit below the belt really. Some people wanted to know about led Mode A scheme. Scargill gets it right Get SOCIALIST door by post!

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Address trade unions. We're obviously going to come across trade unions at some time. Just because it's a garage which doesn't have unions now, it doesn't mean we're going to stay there. You've got to learn how trade unions operate and what they can do for you. The Managing Director is hostile to trade unions because he runs a exactly the best places to work in and if he doesn't have trade unions then he can keep wages back and more money in his own pocket.

Some people on the scheme didn't take much notice but some took it as a joke because they didn't like the teacher. No one apart from me wants to join a Join the sodialist Labour Fightthe inside Curs Women By Marry Kent's appeal to ORGANISER each week delivered to months; £8.50 for

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place which doesntt pay high wages, some of his places aren't