About 25 Remploy workers from across London will be travelling to the Chingford and Woodford Green constituency of the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith on Tuesday 12 June, to protest about the closure of 54 Remploy factories.
In a bid to ‘shame’ Iain Duncan Smith, the Unite union, has taken out an advert in the local paper and a billboard advertisement at Chingford station to alert his electors as to what their MP is doing.
Tomorrow, the Remploy employees from Acton, Barking and Holloway will march from Chingford’s overground station to Iain Duncan Smith’s constituency office, where a letter will be handed in asking for a U-turn by the coalition.
The demonstration comes just before the first factory closures are due to occur early next month and follows recent positive figures from Remploy which revealed sales have risen 12.2 per cent (£14 million) over the previous 12 months.
In the letter, Unite national officer for the not for profit sector, Sally Kosky said: “You say you want disabled people in mainstream employment, yet you have no idea of the bullying and harassment many of them have faced before finding a safe haven within Remploy.”
Sally Kosky said: “The latest sales figures from Remploy itself reveal that these plants are financially viable – and we invite Mr Duncan Smith to visit the Remploy site in Barking to see this positive work at first hand.”
More than 10,000 Unite members have e-mailed Iain Duncan Smith protesting at the decision to close the 54 Remploy factories, of which 36 are due to shut in the first phase.
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