MORE THAN quarter of young people cannot find a job. And it's the same story in the rest of Western Europe where more than 4,500,000 of the million unemployed in the Common Market countries are under 25.
The Tories' response to this catastrophe is the slave labour Youth Training Scheme (YTS). By the end of 1983 employment minister Norman Tebbit wants 460,000 the majority of young workers - on the scheme.
These the main features of YTS.
• It is a year-long training/work perience/place for school - leavers coverine the ma jority of young employees and trainees 225 per week will be paid An allowance of just to trainees The requirement for off-the-job training education is only 13 weeks • Emolovers will get grant of £1850 for every trainee taken on in addition to their normal intake • The Manpower Services Commission expects that of the total 460,000 places, 300,000 will De with employers, private public 160:000 will be based in training workshops, comfull y education based schemes. projects (Branch Sec. NUPE Glamorgan MSC.)
In its booklet Training a TUC Guide and Checklist for Trade.
Negotiations the Brades tells its members TO ANK employers for YTS and 'if it is not intended to run a scheme, press for one to run.' The TUC believes tha " The race lor co-operate the government will introduce the scheme with no. trade union influence. Guidelines Public Employees also issued guidelines YTS. They point out the shortcomings of YTS and the dangers posed to trade unions.
'Despite the assertion that the YTS is about an integrated training programme all school leavers, in the context of this government's policies it can only be seen as a means to keep young people out of the labour market off the unemployment register.
'At the same time it acts in conjunction WILD LICE reduce other wages, policies especially to for young workers. The government doing nothing to create jobs for The young people people. will merely end up being The basis of NUPE's. argument is that unlike the opportunity Prógramme which was for the young will me used the YTS be used by employers to replace employees' by 'trainees"
do not have the legal rights and protec tion enjoyed by employee - for example the Sex and Race Discrimination Acts and the Health and Safety Acts do not apply to them.
Young WOlICI
young people from ethnic communities have sufis mill be another turn of the screw.
power to pick and choose and offer poor wages and Schemes counter-productive not to TUC had endorsed them It has cooperated with the Charter of Rights.
reduces first year Misement wakes up ase hundreds of thousands of didn't touch the ground. There were over a thousand following us around the town. It felt like a thousand anyway. It was great.' Kilmarnock is a solid place. The one way system winds past the Palace theatre and an im- a brave front for a fringe party in Scottish Whisky On the left Johnny Walker's whisky plant: Distillers company, which makes Johnny Walkers accounts for half of Scottish exports (extracting oil, services and finance). £426 million worth of its products were sold 'abroad' in 1981. It's the stuff that stays behind that's worth drinking.
Sanquhar is typical of the next stage of the march's long journey south. . Wee and windy' villages and mining.communities, interspersed with miles and miles of countryside.
Through Cumnock we pass a small council 'scheme'. Housing is one of the vital bonds between the Labour Party and the Scottish working In 1915 thousands of Glaswegians went on rent strike. Led almost entirely Per PEOPLE'S MARCH on the 4000-strong picket agains
NO NUKESI Socialist Action 1lam with a village ponents Expo Tor aclals *Sat 7 May Youth CND Festival for Peace. Starts at demonstration from Embankment marching to Brockwell Park. Bands, speakers and a festival Demonstration outside Defence Com'83, in Brighton. Contact (01)-278 1976 *Thur 12 May Day of Action against Arms production
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unemployed at 17 instead. Basis