Support your local Remploy workers
I IMPLORE all journalists that have a Remploy plant in or near their area to do whatever they can to support fellow trade unionists who are facing uncertainty/difficulties/job losses etc due to plant closures or mergers.
The Government is trying to get more and more disabled people into mainstream employment, rather than retain specialist workplaces to cater for their (often complex) needs.
Please do your bit to keep the plight of this dedicated disabled workforce in the public eye. Get busy writing stories, taking photos, producing items for broadcast, or for use on the web, and help to boost the morale of those who reply on Remploy — Britain’s biggest employer of people with disabilities — for their livelihood.
It’s the least we can all do. The hard working team at Remploy is, it seems, forgotten — dare I suggest ignored? — by the majority of the media. Why?