YOPS youth go on strike | IMGpapers 1980

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THE first ever strike by Youth Opportunity Programme trainees occurweek appropriate in Consett, the town the highest unemployment in Britain.

It ended in a demo at Con sett Job Centre, where there is just one job on offer for hunareas oi senool icavers CasI voul trainees stonneo work on t June in protest at the miserly £23.50 per week they are paid their 'work experience', full week's work for this pittance for six months They then make way for school leaver, depriving the che area of a jot ai normal :ases oi pay SUDOOT poured in from other YOr schemes throughout the couna national ol pay iney recelve The abuse and cynica 'work experience senemes s becoming a na tional scandal, , and nowhere in there are 20.00 voung Deodle or s: monin courses with no so?

Consett have given a leas : CADOS IlE union movement respos there is after scneme leaders,

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