Benefits for striking low-paid workers to be axed

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

'Peverse incentives', IDS? Going on strike, already on a low wage, because they might get a lil payment via tax credits? That's why they do it? Hmmmm, that makes perfect sense...in your twisted, conservative brain, with it's high salary and golden pension..ie no need for you to ever take industrial action of any kind.

Low-paid workers who take strike action will no longer have their wages topped up by the state, ministers say.
Workers on up to £13,000 a year can currently claim working tax credits to top up their income even when they take part in industrial action.
But from next year there will be no increase in benefits if a worker's income drops due to strike action.
The TUC said it was a "mean-spirited" move aimed at deterring workers from standing up for their rights.
The change is part of the new Universal Credit, which is replacing the benefit system with a single payment.
Mr Duncan Smith says the fact that the current benefit system compensates workers and tops up their income when they go on strike is "unfair and creates perverse incentives".

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[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Indeed mean-spirited. Victimising the poorest just because they strike really is a low blow. Was watching Question Time this week and every non-Tory from the Lib Dem chairperson to Peter Hitchens disapproved of such tactics.

End of the day though, it won't change much in terms of class relations. It won't change class dependency and if people really do have to strike out of economic necessity, they will. If people really do have to strike out of overbearing political will, then they'll do that too. Economic and political struggles will not be affected by this move, it won't be effective in any way, so yes, it really is quite mean-spirited.

[Arlekino]

Well this maybe will be out of topic. I am sick of struggling life, lower wages, afraid to put heating because it cost too much, going to shop cheaper and cheaper products, travel cost is soaring just to go to work, probably I have to soon walk half an hour just to safe pennies. Do English queen care about that or politicians of course is not.
Time to mobilise workers.

[Martin Blank]

More primitive accumulation from the free-marketeers. I'm shocked.

[revhope]

Every step taken by the bourgeoisie to intensify the exploitation of workers will one day lead to a mass resistance from workers.