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Dennis Skinner on Ending Exploitation by Private Employment Agencies
Dennis Skinner’s Personal Recommendations for Improving Britain
End Privatisation
Nationalise the Railways
A ‘Robin Hood’ Tax on City Speculators
Scrap Trident
End Nuclear Weapons, Restore Local Democracy
Nationalise the Utilities
Spend More on Education; End Privatised Schooling
Raise Minimum Wage
Ban Zero Hours Contracts
Increase Trade Union Rights
Abandon Tory Obsession with Fiscal Restraint
Ken Livingstone on Perestroika and Industrial Democracy
Norman Finkelstein on the Media Lies of the Israel Lobby
Porky Scratchings Zionist Trolling
The Lies of the Israel Lobby
Arab Opposition Not Biblical, Based on Zionist Colonisation in 19th and 20th Centuries
The Origins of the Different Moral Standards Claimed by Zionists
Lies about the Rise in Anti-Semitic Attacks
Anti-Semitism Allegations Made to Attack Critics of Israel
Dershowitz and In Defence of Israel
Israel Lobby’s Attitude to Truth that of Revolutionary Communists
Norman Finkelstein exposes Lies and Frauds on the Israel-Palestine conflict
Mikhail Gorbachev on Worker’s Control in Perestroika
Dennis Skinner on Cameron and Osborne
Conservative civil war: Clarke bashes Boris, Cash lays into Cameron
Vox Political
Ken Livingstone on How Nazism Discredited Post-War European Conservatives
Twitter Bigot Falsely Accuses Vox Political Writer of Anti-Semitism For Criticising Anti-Semitism Allegations
Dennis Skinner on the Battle of Orgreave
Ken Livingstone on the Rehabilitation of Fascists to Protect Capitalism

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Dennis Skinner on Ending Exploitation by Private Employment Agencies
May 31, 2016
I little while ago this evening I put up piece detailing Dennis Skinner’s own proposals for improving Britain in his book, Sailing Close the Wind. One of them was to end private employment agencies, and get back to using Jobcentres to notify people of available work. He gives a bit more information about his opposition to private employment agencies, which actively discriminate against trade unionists and, he argues, promote racism against foreign workers. After discussing his success under Gordon Brown’s administration in creating an industrial estate that could provide 6,000 jobs, Skinner goes on to write
All the growth, however, has to be accompanied by a totally new employment strategy. the Labour government has to get rid of zero-hours contracts and agencies that exploit the workers and effectively outlaw trade union membership, refusing to hire anybody who joins a union. Let us get back to the days when the Labour Exchange or Jobcentres provided people with work, and employment agencies didn’t short-change and abuse people. Men and women today are worried about being undercut by foreign labour. The real problem is that agencies act as middlemen, taking a cut of wages. When I worked in the coal mines in the late 1940s, Poles and Ukrainians were employed in nearly every pit. They were regarded as displaced persons after the war.