Save our Remploy Factories - Sign the petition now!
Once again all 54 Remploy
factories are under threat of closure when current public funding ends in April 2013. Closing Remploy is the aim of conflicted
axe grinders who want the funding for themselves. Another threat is that the factories are rendered less economic being only
50% loaded because public bodies have failed to support them with work as allowed under EU rules.
It would cost Treasury less to keep the factories operating fully loaded
rather than putting the workers out of work on welfare. The majority of Remploy workers who lost their jobs in 2008 are still
on welfare 3 years later.
The crucial campaign
objective is to get the loading up to 100% and to keep these factories open.
These factories have a successful track record going back to 1946 till the public authorities
stopped loading them with work in 1990s due to then EU directive. The EU rules have been changed and the factories can be
successful again when they are fully loaded. Making uniforms for the armed forces, emergency services and medical staff, and
supplying schools would more than keep them busy.
Remploy
workers want help to get their factories fully loaded. GMB will shortly publish the list of all public bodies that are not
now supporting Remploy with work. You can help if you are involved with any of these bodies or can lobby MPs, councilors
and others to get them to place work with Remploy.
Therefore I am asking you to sign the online petition urging The Right Honourable David Cameron Prime Minister to stop the closure of Remploy
Factories and the privatisation of Remploy Employment Services