Workfare - it don't work and it ain't fair

The TUC has rejected this week’s Government proposals to extend the mandatory work activity scheme - which will force people without jobs to work for free - as ‘punishing people without jobs’
www.parliament.uk/documents/
commons-vote-office/June_2012/12-06-12/13.DWP-Mandatory-Work-Activity.pdf  A useful TUC Charter on work experience can be accessed here:
http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-21054-f0.cfm