After hearing that more than a third of those claiming job seekers' allowance in Barnsley are between 18 and 24, the GMB trade union says that this is a worrying statistic.
Barnsley has the most jobless 18-24 year olds in the region.
Of the 6,521 claimants, 34.9% are in the age group.
What the above means, which I have just read in the Barnsley Chronicle, is that 34.9% of 6,521 is approximately 2,276 18-24 year olds are not in work.
That's 2,276 young people who are claiming job seekers' allowance in Barnsley.
The proof at the top shows the numbers of migrant workers which have been employed in Barnsley.
Cllr Linda Burgess says that we need to encourage young people to look beyond Barnsley, towards other opportunities. Why is that Linda? Are you actually admitting to demoralising the young and leaving them to rot while actively encouraging anyone who isn't British to come and live in Barnsley.
The British National Party is committed to British Jobs for British Workers, let's employ our own young people in our own town.
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That's a very Selective version of what was printed in the chronicle. She said in some cases youngsters could look beyond Barnsley but she also talked about vocational training for young people, and encouraging growth in the economy to create more jobs here in Barnsley. Did you miss that bit?
I'm an unemployed youth in Barnsley.
But next week I will be employed, for a short while. (Full time at minimum wage)
Hopefully I should have some other work coming online soon. (Full time at minimum wage with overtime available and increasing wages)
I've been in Barnsley 6 month. Unemployed for all of that time.
I know why I am unemployed, and I know I can get work, but I personally place a value upon time, my time in particular.
There is a minimum wage and a benefit system, there is also my personal valuation in £ terms of my labour of an hourly rate. I take all these factors into account. I will work for minimum wage but only if the hours exceed 40.
I'll even work for free if it benefits the community (friends, family & neighbours).
I was going to ask you today about how you would reduce youth unemployment, because 1% of the Barnsley population are unemployed youths, signing on like myself, and many have my mindset. I know because we talk, and we all want work, but we don't want to work for nothing (or even to be worse off!)
However, I didn't get round to it. What with the anti BNP brigade shouting nearby (ironically many of them are soon to be unemployed youths once they leave Barnsley college), whilst up the road are the BNP they are protesting against who have blogged about their desire to reduce youth unemployment in Barnsley.
I was wondered, what will you do to reduce youth (and adult) unemployment in its various forms in Barnsley.(There's a lot of older people on the sick about to be booted on to JSA by the conservatives you see).
We need our industry back - making things makes money for our economy, keeps vital services rolling and keeps people in employment.
The treacherous Government, past and present has supported foreign takeovers and offshoring of our industries which has left people out of work.
New jobs coming into the area should be for local people and the trend at the moment seems to be warehouse work.
New distribution warehouses are springing up around Barnsley, let's see if they employ the young jobless.
To anon..I don't take the spin from Labour...how exactly is she going to encourage growth, by accepting more migrant workers into Barnsley, they are good for our economy aren't they?
I am now employed and signed off today, I know of 8 other youths who gained employment in the last week. Lets hope less than 9 signed on!
I've noticed warehouses (ASOS in particular), and personally consider Barnsley one of the best places in the whole of the UK to open factories and warehouses.
And the opening of factories here will benefit the economy more than it would elsewhere. With lower housing costs, residents have more money to spend in the local economy, down the market, at the pubs etc. from these minimum wage jobs, than they would elsewhere in the UK.
My worry about these new jobs is the agency controlled division of labour for low rates.
People need guaranteed minimum incomes, a fixed amount of hours, with the possibility of overtime.
When working for an agency, you need to be guaranteed a minimum amount of shifts, else you could be working for less than the dole, and spending money to work. Workers need to benefit from their labour.
This type of work will often go to the Eastern Europeans, I worked with many of them in a meat factory warehouse for 6 months. They can't claim benefits and will turn up everyday to the agency cabin on site. Hoping for a shift. 1 shift will pay for their week's food, 2 shifts, their housing. When demand is low, they can cope with 2 shifts, they have to. For people like myself the dole pays more when housing and council tax benefits are included.
They are taking our jobs, but nobody wants to work like that. And perverse financial incentives encourage EEs into such employment and natives like myself onto the dole.
How can anyone live a normal life, let alone raise a family when they are constantly worrying about securing work with their current employer!
The only reason they are taking our jobs is because they will work for less than us, whilst we won't work for less than benefits, but they can't get benefits, so they have to take what they can. A lot of them are living worse than what I could (and have) on the dole.
If they got the dole too, they wouldn't work for such low rates. Wages would have to rise to attract staff. Instead of attracting only foreign staff, the wages would be high enough to attract English staff.
It's the not only way, we could cut the dole, but with such high structural unemployment, that would be madness. Another way of tackling this would be to regulate agencies. 'Gangmasters' in particular. Their abuse of travel to work schemes to avoid paying tax and other such behaviour which damages local communities.
I did some research and found out the comparative GDP PPP figures for 1931 and 2009, and also the rate of benefits. In 1931 the dole was cut and people couldn't afford food, there were hunger protests. In today's money the dole was cut from a little over £300 to a bit under £300. The cost of housing was also much cheaper - relatively.
Food is a lot cheaper nowadays, so people get by on a lot less comparatively. But inequality is a lot higher. Those at the bottom don't really benefit from the advances in technology (and if it does not advance they begin to lose out), they still struggle to get by for food and housing. Yet we could easily provide all with more than they need. Consuming is not a problem, we need wage inflation.
The great depression was ended with wage inflation driven by the demand for war labour. We need wage inflation but we don't need a war, we just need a bit more equality.
In 1931 they discussed and dismissed the idea of minimum wage, today we have one, but it is less than what the dole was back in 31 as GDP PPP.
I want to live in an England where a man can find plentiful work at a fair rate, put a roof over his head and then raise a family, but have enough money in his pocket to have a pint in his local. Perhaps getting about £300 in today's money a week for working full time.
We have sensible people presenting themselves as insane to the local authority to claim incapacity benefit instead.
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