I received the following email as a community member of Unite the Union and I thought it was important to share this with everyone. It is important that everyone knows what is being proposed by the current right wing Government.

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Welfare reforms shouldn’t pit the poorest against the poorest

Your Unite general secretary Sharon Graham responded to the threatened cuts to disability benefits this week:

“The government is in danger of making the wrong choices. We must be protecting the most vulnerable in society and not pitting the poorest against the poorest.

“Before cutting benefits, the government should be introducing a wealth tax, so that the very wealthiest in society begin paying their fair share.

“The principle of getting people back into work is right but we need joined-up thinking to ensure we are creating jobs and training for people to go into. That is about investment in manufacturing and creating jobs for the future. Over a third of people on benefits are already in work, we need to ensure that work pays for everyone.”

Unite has been campaigning for the introduction of a wealth tax. By taxing the richest one per cent in society, one per cent of their assets, the UK could raise £25 billion. The richest families in Britain are worth £500 billion the same wealth as half of the UK combined

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